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title: "Data Feed: Marijuana gains in Ohio, Maryland; more jobs for law-school grads; women’s commuting patterns"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-02-24"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/02/24/data-feed-marijuana-gains-in-ohio-maryland-more-jobs-for-law-school-grads-womens-commuting-patterns/"
---

# Data Feed: Marijuana gains in Ohio, Maryland; more jobs for law-school grads; women’s commuting patterns

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

**Politics **[Fewer Americans think Obama is respected on world stage](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167534/fewer-americans-think-obama-respected-world-stage.aspx), Gallup [About half of Ohio voters favor legal marijuana, same-sex marriage](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/ohio/release-detail?ReleaseID=2011), Quinnipiac [Nearly half of Marylanders say pot should be legal](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/poll-nearly-half-of-marylanders-back-legalizing-pot-43-percent-are-opposed/2014/02/22/b63f6ffc-9a64-11e3-b931-0204122c514b_story.html), [topline](http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/local/washington-post-maryland-poll-2014-governors-race/817/), The Washington Post [Healthcare premium differentials could affect midterm elections](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/02/21/politics-counts-health-care-premiums-and-the-midterm-elections/?mod=WSJBlog), The Wall Street Journal

**Economy** [Brighter job picture for this year's law-school grads -- if they worked last summer](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304834704579401333039241024.html?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_business), WSJ [Another look at retiring Boomers and labor force participation](http://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-are-retiring-2014-2), Business Insider [Energy trade is a key part of overall U.S. trade flows](http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15131), Energy Information Administration

**Health & Society ** [29% of voters haven't watched any live TV in past week](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/poll-more-voters-viewing-video-online-103826.html?hp=r5), Politico [Who does the NYT mention more -- economists or political scientists?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/02/23/data-on-the-relevance-of-political-scientists-to-the-nyt/?wpisrc=nl_cage), The Monkey Cage [The state of America today, in 25 maps and charts](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/02/24/25-maps-and-charts-that-explain-america-today/), The Washington Post [Most nonmarital births unintended, but not always unwanted](http://family-studies.org/as-nonmarital-births-rise-women-becoming-more-likely-to-plan-pregnancies/), Institute for Family Studies [Tax lawsuits edge downward](http://trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email.140221.html), TRAC Syracuse

**International **[Women commute as long as men, but cover shorter distances](http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/are-women-forced-work-closer-home-due-other-responsibilities-does-contribute-gender-wage?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT), World Bank [EU job market dividing along north-south line](http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-184_en.htm?locale=en), European Commission [Euro area annual inflation stable at 0.8%](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/2-24022014-AP/EN/2-24022014-AP-EN.PDF), Eurostat [Canadian senior couples closer in age; more are divorced, separated](http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140224/dq140224a-eng.htm?HPA), Statistics Canada [53.7% of China’s population lived in cities in 2013, up 1.2%](http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201402/t20140224_515103.html), National Bureau of Statistics [Do city residents live longer than their national average?](http://www.theguardian.com/cities/datablog/ng-interactive/2014/feb/24/interactive-map-do-people-living-in-cities-live-longer) Guardian[ ](http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/cow/cow.08.02242014.en-large.png)

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