---
title: "Data Feed: Low-wage breadwinners, record expatriations, Texas Hispanics"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-02-07"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/07/data-feed-low-wage-breadwinners-record-expatriations-texas-hispanics/"
---

# Data Feed: Low-wage breadwinners, record expatriations, Texas Hispanics

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

**Politics** [Texas Hispanics tilt Democratic, but state likely to stay red](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167339/texan-hispanics-tilt-democratic-state-likely-stay-red.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup [The state-by-state odds of Republicans winning the Senate](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/06/how-republicans-can-win-the-senate-in-2014/), The Monkey Cage [Obama and mass deportation](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/daily-chart-5?%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc), The Economist

**Economy **[Payrolls up 113,000, weaker than expected; jobless rate 6.6%](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm), Bureau of Labor Statistics [Charting the current state of the labor market](http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf), BLS [The rise of the low-wage breadwinner](http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/06/news/economy/low-wage-breadwinner/index.html), CNN Money [The demographic engine of city growth](http://demomemo.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-demographic-engine-of-city-growth.html), DemoMemo [Students from "quality" high schools do better in college](http://www.nber.org/papers/w19842), NBER

**Health & Society ** [Women make up over half of 800,000 who have stroke each year](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/women-of-all-ages-face-higher-risk-of-stroke-than-men-new-guidelines-say/2014/02/06/d4df8d44-8eb0-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html?wpisrc=al_national), The Washington Post [Americans familiarity with healthcare law unchanged](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167351/americans-familiarity-healthcare-law-unchanged.aspx), Gallup [Findings from a 2013 survey of poor Americans and the ACA](http://kff.org/uninsured/report/the-uninsured-at-the-starting-line-findings-from-the-2013-kaiser-survey-of-low-income-americans-and-the-aca/), Kaiser Family Foundation [Most-uninsured states less likely to embrace health law](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167321/highest-uninsured-states-less-likely-embrace-health-law.aspx), Gallup [Expatriations rose to record last year](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304450904579367323461396020?mod=ITP_moneyandinvesting_1), The Wall Street Journal [Many new, educated urban dwellers came from overseas](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/02/06/many-new-educated-entrants-to-big-u-s-cities-came-from-overseas/), The Wall Street Journal [A look at thrifty millennials](http://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/feb/06/millennials-conservative-cheap-wisest-generation), Guardian [How the sports in the Winter Olympics have evolved since 1924](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/sports/2014-olympics/history/), The Washington Post [Are the Winter Olympics for rich countries?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/sports/2014-olympics/winter-vs-summer-olympics/) The Washington Post

**Science & Technology** [U.S. losing market share in global science and technology](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/02/06/the-u-s-is-losing-market-share-in-global-science-and-technology-dont-panic/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), The Washington Post [Full set of science and engineering indicators 2014](http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/), National Science Board

**International** [Nearly three-quarters of Russians say homosexuality unacceptable](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/06/russias-moral-barometer-homosexuality-unacceptable-but-drinking-less-so/), Pew Research Center [Employment up 29,000 in Canada in January, unemployment rate at 7%](http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140207/dq140207a-eng.htm?HPA), Statistics Canada [Aid to ‘fragile states’ down 2.4% in 2011 and projected to continue declining](http://www.oecd.org/dac/incaf/resourceflowstofragilestates.htm), OECD [Measles deaths reach record lows](http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/measles-20140206/en/index.html), World Health Organization [A global map of homophobia](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2014/02/global-map-homophobia/8309/), The Atlantic Cities [How many hours of minimum wage work it takes to buy a beer, by country](http://qz.com/174700/how-many-hours-of-minimum-wage-work-it-takes-to-earn-a-beer/), Quartz

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