---
title: "Data Feed: Rising food prices, student learning, coffee-shop geography"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-03-18"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/03/18/data-feed-food-prices-rise-student-learning-news-consumption/"
---

# Data Feed: Rising food prices, student learning, coffee-shop geography

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

**Politics **[Does mentioning Hitler make Americans more willing to intervene in Ukraine?](https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/03/12/quarrel-far-away-country-between-people-whom-we-kn/) YouGov[ ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/17/americans-are-ok-with-russian-sanctions-but-not-much-else/)

**Economy** [Grocery bills surge as drought exacts high toll on crops](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303287804579445311778530606?mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [When living wage is minimum wage](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-living-wage-is-minimum-wage/), FiveThirtyEight [Retirement confidence rises, but only among wealthier savers](http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/18/retirement/retirement-confidence/index.html?iid=HP_LN), CNN Money [Maps: The most, least income-segregated metro areas](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/03/us-cities-highest-levels-income-segregation/8632/), The Atlantic Cities [Gender wage gap remains reality across racial/ethnic groups](http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-2013-differences-by-race-and-ethnicity-no-growth-in-real-wages-for-women), IWPR

**Health & Society** [New health exchanges reach 5 million enrollees](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303287804579445791842772638?mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [How Americans choose to get their news](http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/personal-news-cycle/), API/AP/NORC [CNN's ratings surge covering mystery of missing airliner](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/business/media/cnns-ratings-surge-with-coverage-of-the-mystery-of-the-missing-airliner.html?hpw&rref=business), New York Times [2014 Brown Center report: How well are American students learning?](http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2014/03/18-brown-center-report-loveless) Brookings [Americans most likely to say global warming is exaggerated](http://www.gallup.com/poll/167960/americans-likely-say-global-warming-exaggerated.aspx), Gallup [A map of history's biggest greenhouse gas polluters](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/03/map-historys-biggest-greenhouse-gas-polluters/8657/), The Atlantic Cities [Has food stamp enrollment finally peaked?](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/03/17/has-food-stamp-enrollment-finally-peaked/) The Wall Street Journal [Teens more likely to drive under influence after riding with impaired driver](http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/Teens-More-Likely-to-Drive-Under-the-Influence-After-Riding-with-an-Impaired-Driver.aspx), AAP [Map: The geography of North American coffee shops](http://flowingdata.com/2014/03/18/coffee-place-geography/), Flowing Data [Children's feelings about brands persist until adulthood](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/childrens-feelings-about-brands-persist-into-adulthood/), Harvard Business Review

**International** [Society at a glance 2014: New social indicators report](http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/society-at-a-glance-2014_soc_glance-2014-en), OECD [One-in-ten Vietnamese ages 5 to 17 are child workers](http://www.ilo.org/hanoi/Informationresources/Publicinformation/newsitems/WCMS_237788/lang--en/index.htm), International Labor Organization [One-third of Libyans feel unsafe when traveling to work, school, mosque, market](http://www.ndi.org/files/Libya-Committed-to-Democracy-and-Unity-ENG.pdf), NDI [In Germany, gender pay gap especially large for full-time employees in 2013](https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2014/03/PE14_104_621.html;jsessionid=D2DD65E7F86C56C2588694C3008DFE3D.cae1), Destatis [In Australia, half of all migrants live in Sydney or Melbourne](http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/latestProducts/4102.0Media%20Release12014), Bureau of Statistics[ ](http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2014/mar/18/interactive-countries-most-google-results)

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