---
title: "Data Feed: Public support for minimum wage hike, suicidal tendencies, tech gender gap"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-03-04"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/03/04/data-feed-public-support-for-minimum-wage-hike-suicidal-tendencies-tech-gender-gap/"
---

# Data Feed: Public support for minimum wage hike, suicidal tendencies, tech gender gap

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

**Politics **[Dem. advantage on key issues doesn’t translate to midterm edge](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-democrats-advantage-on-key-issues-is-not-translating-to-a-midterm-election-edge/2014/03/03/455ae6ea-a306-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html), [topline](http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/politics/washington-post-abc-news-poll-march-2014-politics-obama-and-2014-midterms/855/), ABC News/Washington Post [Is the Democrats' push on minimum wage working?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/04/is-the-democratic-partys-minimum-wage-push-working/) Washington Post [Most voters in N.J., N.Y., Va. favor min. wage hike](http://eagletonpollblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/results-of-a-joint-poll-with-siena-and-roanoke-released-today/), [topline](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~redlawsk/EP/Tables2014/RoanokeRutgersSiena030414.pdf), Roanoke/Rutgers/Siena [Conn. voters support state minimum wage hike 71%-25%](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/connecticut/release-detail?ReleaseID=2015), Quinnipiac [Virginians split on Obama’s job approval; 80% disapprove job Congress is doing](http://cnu.edu/cpp/pdf/feb-2014_2016-presidential_final.pdf), CNU [51% of N.C. voters oppose gay marriage, 40% support it](http://www.elon.edu/e-web/elonpoll/030314.xhtml), [topline](http://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/elonpoll/030314_ElonPollSummary.pdf), Elon [Are the Democrats getting too liberal?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-the-democrats-getting-too-liberal/2014/02/28/c0d42d7c-8d26-11e3-95dd-36ff657a4dae_story.html) Washington Post via Pew Research

**Economy **[White House spending projections vs. actual spending](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/04/white-house-spending-expectations-vs-budgetary-reality/), The Washington Post** **[There is no gender gap in tech salaries](http://qz.com/182977/there-is-no-gender-gap-in-tech-salaries/#/h/51092,1/), Quartz [February cold stalls auto-sales growth](http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-03-04/february-us-auto-sales.html), Bloomberg

**Health & Society** [Study: Suicidal tendencies are evident before deployment](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/science/suicidal-tendencies-are-evident-before-deployment-study-finds.html), JAMA Psychiatry via New York Times [White women more likely to have out-of-hospital births than any other race/ethnicity](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db144.htm), CDC [States with highest, lowest obesity rates](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167642/mississippians-obese-montanans-least-obese.aspx), Gallup [Map: What brings Americans to the ER?](http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/what-brings-americans-to-the-er/284140/) The Atlantic [Interactive: Is there enough affordable housing in your county?](http://www.urban.org/housingaffordability/) Urban Institute [Rich, white, healthy people more likely to hate Obamacare](http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/03/rich-white-healthy-people-are-most-likely-to-hate-obamacare/284149/), Urban Institute via The Atlantic [1 in 3 skilled nursing patients were harmed in treatment](http://www.propublica.org/article/one-third-of-skilled-nursing-patients-harmed-in-treatment), HHS via ProPublica [Retirement security in an aging society](http://www.nber.org/papers/w19930), NBER [Quantifying policy tradeoffs to support aging populations](http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol30/20/default.htm), Demographic Research

**International **[Gender pay gap stagnates at 16.4% across Europe](http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-190_en.htm), European Commission [Do firms in developing countries grow as they age?](http://blogs.worldbank.org/allaboutfinance/do-firms-developing-countries-grow-they-age) World Bank [Chart: The cost of living around the world](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/03/daily-chart-1), The Economist

**Random Sample **[Interactive: How baby names spread across the U.S.](http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2014/mar/03/how-baby-names-spread-across-the-us-interactive-map), Guardian

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