--- title: "Data Feed: Unemployment top priority, tech-exec pay packages, bullying’s long-term impact" description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers." date: "2014-02-18" authors: - name: "George Gao" job_title: "Former " link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/" url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/18/data-feed-unemployment-top-priority-tech-exec-pay-packages-bullyings-long-term-impact/" categories: - "Unemployment" - "Unemployment" --- # Data Feed: Unemployment top priority, tech-exec pay packages, bullying’s long-term impact *A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.* **Politics **[Unemployment now top problem for Americans](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167450/unemployment-rises-top-problem.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup [Border security, immigrant status equally important](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167432/border-security-immigrant-status-equally-important.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines), Gallup [Candidates come and go, but the gender gap has amazing staying power](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/02/14/politics-counts-why-womens-issues-wont-bridge-the-gender-gap/?mod=WSJBlog), WSJ [New Yorkers back marijuana legalization, 57% to 39%](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/new-york-state/release-detail?ReleaseID=2008), Quinnipiac [Interactive: How ‘dark money’ flows through the Koch network](http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/koch), ProPublica [Congress could gain ground with American public](http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2014/02/congress-could-gain-ground-with.html), Gallup **Economy **[Map: Which state has the highest marginal income tax rate?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/02/16/the-united-states-of-income-tax-in-one-map/) The Washington Post [Breaking down tech executives’ pay packages](http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-02-18/breaking-down-tech-executives-giant-pay-packages.html), Bloomberg[ ](http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15051)[Millions have more credit-card debt than emergency savings](http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-credit-card-debt-emergency-savings-20140218,0,7458262.story#axzz2tgpjkNeh), Bankrate.com via LA Times **Health & Society** [Census Bureau experiments with email, texting to reach people](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/18/in-an-historic-move-census-bureau-tries-electronic-outreach/), Pew Research Center [Average adult spent 4 days sick in bed in 2012](http://demomemo.blogspot.com/2014/02/sick-in-bed.html), DemoMemo (from [CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm)) [44% of intellectually disabled in labor force, 34% actually working](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/too-many-intellectually-disabled-are-still-excluded-from-the-world-of-work-study-says/2014/02/17/f21ea34a-97f7-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines), The Washington Post [Academic libraries added 52.7 million e-books in 2012](http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014038), Nat'l Center for Education Statistics [Long-term effects of getting bullied in fifth grade](http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/02/11/peds.2013-3510), Pediatrics [Cities and states with most homegrown residents](http://www.businessinsider.com/places-with-most-homegrown-residents-2014-2), Business Insider [Scientific papers with more diverse input have greater impact](http://www.nber.org/papers/w19905.pdf?new_window=1), NBER[ ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/few-parents-would-choose-a-dcps-middle-school/2014/02/17/8b26c6ee-9834-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_graphic.html)[Millennials more aware of data-security issues but take more risks](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/do-millennials-believe-in-data-security/?utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=Socialflow), Softchoice via HBR **International** [Winter Olympic medals per population, GDP](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/norway-slovenia-and-latvia-are-owning-the-sochi-olympics/283876/), The Atlantic [Manufacturing in much of E. Europe fully recovered from recession](http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-111_en.htm), European Commission [Japan’s household income, expenditure up slightly in 2013](http://www.stat.go.jp/english/whatsnew/index.htm), Statistics Bureau [U.S., Mexico tied for most obese in developed world](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/measuring-weight-world/), OECD via PBS Newshour *Got new data to share? Send it to us via email *[*facttank@pewresearch.org*](mailto:facttank@pewresearch.org)* or Tweet us *[*@FactTank*](http://www.twitter.com/facttank)*.*