---
title: "Data Feed: City/country political divide, long-term unemployment, educational inequality"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-03-21"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/03/21/data-feed-citycountry-political-divide-long-term-unemployment-educational-inequality/"
categories:
  - "Unemployment"
  - "Unemployment"
---

# Data Feed: City/country political divide, long-term unemployment, educational inequality

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

**Politics **[How where we live deepens nation's political divide](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303636404579395532755485004?mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [Americans prioritize protecting environment over economic growth](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168017/americans-again-pick-environment-economic-growth.aspx), Gallup [Clinton's top selling point in 2016: first female president](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168041/clinton-top-selling-point-2016-first-female-president.aspx), Gallup [Majority opposes employer opt-out from contraception mandate](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-majority-opposes-employers-opting-out-contraception-mandate-n56906), NBC News/WSJ

**Economy** [Unemployment fell in most metro areas over past year](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/metro.pdf), BLS [Who are the long-term unemployed and what happens to them?](http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/bpea-long-term-unemployed?utm_campaign=Economic+Studies&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=12267247&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Bp121bUP0I67jZhZ55Y4zDAp07sg76Q2gHccXf_1bCnFiLjeiAUcUD8glV5HgKqEzVd9Kdk95NREGSCnGACi-fqelkg&_hsmi=12267247) Brookings [Map: How much stimulus spending did your district receive?](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/20/map-how-much-stimulus-spending-did-your-district-receive/), Washington Post [Houston leads metro areas on job creation index](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168008/houston-leads-metro-areas-job-creation-index.aspx), Gallup [Wages booming in some industries, but many workers left behind](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303287804579447623214129940?mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [It's not just the poor who are living paycheck to paycheck](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/21/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-its-not-just-for-the-poor/), Washington Post [Veterans' unemployment edges down but remains high](http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/veterans-unemployment-edges-remains-high-22991684?singlePage=true), Associated Press [36% of U.S. workers have less than $1,000 in retirement savings](http://www.ebri.org/pdf/surveys/rcs/2014/RCS14.FS-6.Prep-Ret.Final.pdf), EBRI [Trends in economic inequality and how tax policy can reduce it](http://www.urban.org/publications/413067.html), Urban Institute [Symposium on economic inequality and opportunity](http://www.aei.org/papers/economics/opportunity-for-all-how-to-think-about-income-inequality/), American Enterprise Institute

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**Health & Society** [Roundup of opinion polling on healthcare reform](http://www.aei.org/papers/politics-and-public-opinion/polls/aei-special-poll-report-health-care-and-the-affordable-care-act-march-2014/), American Enterprise Institute [Racial and geographic disparities in tuberculosis rates persist](http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6311a2.htm?s_cid=mm6311a2_w), CDC [95% of tuberculosis deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries](http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/), WHO [Data finds racial pattern of inequity in educational opportunity](http://ocrdata.ed.gov/), U.S. Dept. of Education [Upper-income students rely more on magazine rankings to pick colleges](http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Documents/Rankings-Institutional-Behavior-and-College-and-University-Choice.pdf), ACE

**International **[If China's economy sneezes, sub-Saharan Africa may catch cold](http://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/2014/03/20/if-china-sneezes-africa-can-now-catch-a-cold/), Intl. Monetary Fund [How South Ossetians, Abkhazians, Transnistrians feel about joining Russia](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/03/20/how-people-in-south-ossetia-abkhazia-and-transnistria-feel-about-annexation-by-russia/), WashPost

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