---
title: "Data Feed: Social-media SOTU, obesity rising for poor teens, Syrian refugees"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-01-29"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/01/29/data-feed-social-media-sotu-obesity-rising-for-poor-teens-syrian-refugees/"
categories:
  - "Refugees & Asylum Seekers"
---

# Data Feed: Social-media SOTU, obesity rising for poor teens, Syrian refugees

*A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.*

**Politics** [Twitter’s real-time reactions to the State of the Union](http://twitter.github.io/interactive/sotu2014/#p1), Twitter [Top five "social moments" during State of the Union](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151918229626795&set=a.396745771794.174550.129228016794&type=1&stream_ref=10), Facebook [Democrats, Republicans differ on top priorities for government](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167084/democrats-republicans-differ-top-priorities-gov.aspx), Gallup [Fewer states leaned Democratic in 2013, but blue still led red](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167030/not-states-lean-democratic-2013.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup [The $956 billion farm bill, in one graph](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/28/the-950-billion-farm-bill-in-one-chart/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), The Washington Post

**Economy **[Obama’s economy in 17 charts](http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2014/01/28/obama-economy/index.html), CNN Money [Who are the long-term unemployed? In 3 graphs](http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/01/28/267743569/who-are-the-long-term-unemployed-in-three-graphs), NPR [Consumers in search of confidence](http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/in-search-of-confidence/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Business%20Day&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body), The New York Times [Who has a higher minimum wage than the federal rate?](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/28/who-has-a-higher-minimum-wage-than-the-federal-rate/) The Wall Street Journal** **[Average airfare was $390 in third quarter, up 5.1%](http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/press_releases/bts005_14), Bureau of Transportation Statistics [Housing affordability weakens in expensive West Coast markets](http://www.zillow.com/blog/research/2014/01/28/2013-q3-mortgage-affordability/), Zillow

**Health & Society** [2013 health cost trends in Massachusetts](http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/hpc/2013-cost-trends-report-final.pdf), State Health Policy Commission [Socioeconomic disparities in teen obesity](http://www.pnas.org/content/111/4/1338.full.pdf), PNAS (via [Harvard Business Review](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/the-social-disparity-behind-americas-growing-obesity-gap/)) [Millennials prefer coffee shops and pizzerias to burger joints](http://qz.com/171525/millennials-surprising-food-preferences-they-like-starbucks-and-pizza-much-more-than-mcdonalds/), Quartz

**International** [Where are Syrian refugees going?](http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jan/29/where-are-the-syrian-refugees-going) Guardian [Operating profits at Chinese businesses grew 4% last year](http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201401/t20140129_506765.html), National Bureau of Statistics [Record 2.6 billion nights spent in tourist accommodation in EU in 2013](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/4-29012014-AP/EN/4-29012014-AP-EN.PDF), Eurostat [48% of U.K residents with poor or no English were employed](http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census-analysis/english-language-proficiency-in-the-labour-market/info-english-language-proficiency.html), Office for National Statistics[ ](http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140129/dq140129a-eng.htm?HPA)

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