---
title: "Data Feed: U.S.-Cuba ties, couples and technology, children on caffeine"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-02-11"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/11/data-feed-u-s-cuba-ties-couples-and-technology-children-on-caffeine/"
---

# Data Feed: U.S.-Cuba ties, couples and technology, children on caffeine

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

**Politics **[Majority of Americans favor ties with Cuba](http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/US-CubaPollFinalEmbargo.pdf), Atlantic Council via [New York Times](http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/world/americas/majority-of-americans-favor-ties-with-cuba-poll-finds.html?_r=0&referrer)** **[Congressional job approval at 12% in February](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167375/congressional-job-approval-february.aspx), Gallup [Why it matters what the public thinks about Yellen](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/11/why-it-matters-what-the-public-thinks-about-janet-yellen/), The Monkey Cage

**Economy **[Job openings and labor turnover, December 2013](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/jolts.pdf), Bureau of Labor Statistics [February survey of consumer expectations](http://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/), New York Fed [Where do low-wage workers live?](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2014/02/10-metropolitan-geography-low-wage-work-williams-berube), Brookings [States embrace earned-income credit](http://www.pewstates.org/research/data-visualizations/states-with-their-own-version-of-the-earned-income-tax-credit-85899539730), The Pew Charitable Trusts [66% of U.S. workers did not have a 4-year college degree in 2011](http://www.clevelandfed.org/for_the_public/news_and_media/press_releases/2014/pr_20140210.cfm), Cleveland Fed [How long it takes Walmart, Google, others to bring in $1 million](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/02/real-time-revenues-and-profits?%3Ffsrc%3Dscn%2F=tw%2Fdc), The Economist [Long-term labor-market consequences of the Clean Air Act](http://www.nber.org/papers/w19858), NBER

**Health & Society **[Couples, the internet, and social media](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2014/Couples-and-the-internet.aspx), Pew Research Center [NBC single-handedly pays for a fifth of all Olympic Games](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/10/nbc-single-handedly-pays-for-a-fifth-of-all-olympic-games/), The Washington Post** **[Do Facebook couples believe in the same god?](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/love-and-religion/10152056520123859) Facebook [Negative views of healthcare law rise](http://m.rand.org/blog/2014/02/rand-health-reform-opinion-study-update-negative-opinion.html), RAND Corporation [College graduates work more, out-earn non-grads](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/02/11/the-rising-cost-of-not-going-to-college/), Pew Research Center [Students taking AP exams nearly doubled in past decade](http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/rtn/10th-annual/10th-annual-ap-report-to-the-nation-single-page.pdf), College Board [73% of children consumed caffeine on any given day](http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/04/peds.2013-2877), American Academy of Pediatrics

**International** [OECD unemployment rate falls to 7.6% in December](http://www.oecd.org/std/labour-stats/HUR-Feb14.pdf), OECD [Post-mortem on economic forecasts during and after financial crisis](http://www.oecd.org/eco/outlook/oecd-forecasts-during-and-after-the-financial-crisis-a-post-mortem.htm), OECD** **[Gay rights in Russia and the former Soviet republics](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/11/russia-is-not-the-only-former-soviet-state-to-restrict-lgbt-rights/), Fact Tank[ ](http://ec.europa.eu/justice/citizen/files/dg_just_eva_free_mov_final_report_27.01.14.pdf)

**Random Sample** [Visualization of Olympic medal winners and various indicators](http://data.huffingtonpost.com/winter-olympics-sochi-2014), The Huffington Post

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