---
title: "Data Feed: Campaign spending caps, global economic recovery, America’s seniors and tech use"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-04-03"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/03/data-feed-campaign-spending-caps-global-economic-recovery-americas-seniors-and-tech-use/"
---

# Data Feed: Campaign spending caps, global economic recovery, America’s seniors and tech use

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

**Politics** [Polls show broad support for campaign spending caps](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/us/politics/polls-show-broad-support-for-campaign-spending-caps.html), New York Times [Public sentiment cools toward Christie, warmer to Clinton and Warren](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2028), Quinnipiac [In N.J., Gov Chris Christie's ratings have stabilized](http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/83ec5571-d8ed-46e3-b1b7-80a99d86688d.pdf), Monmouth U./Asbury Park Press

**Economy** [Chart: State actions on the minimum wage](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/02/us/politics/state-action-minimum-wage.html), New York Times [Mobile banking more popular among the young](http://www.bbvaresearch.com/KETD/fbin/mult/140402_BankingWatchEEUU_111_tcm348-439243.pdf), BBVA [40 years of Chicago's rising inequality, in one GIF](http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2014/04/40-years-chicagos-rising-inequality-one-gif/8786/), The Atlantic Cities [Most U.S. jobs pay less than $20 an hour](http://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/us-jobs-wages/?iid=HP_LN), CNN Money [Almost everywhere, men predominate in computer jobs](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/gender-balance-tech-new-york-beyond/), FiveThirtyEight [Payroll to population rate 42.7% in March](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168218/payroll-population-rate-march.aspx), Gallup [Americans still favor energy conservation over greater production](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168176/americans-favor-energy-conservation-production.aspx), Gallup [U.S. journalism revenues have fallen by a third since 2006](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/03/news-revenue-declines-despite-growth-from-new-sources/), Pew Research Center

**Health & Society** [Coverage gap: Uninsured poor in states that don't expand Medicaid](http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/the-coverage-gap-uninsured-poor-adults-in-states-that-do-not-expand-medicaid/), KFF [Quitting smoking (with help) costs more if you are poor](http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/quitting-smoking-costs-more-if-you-re-poor-20140403), CDC via National Journal [Older adults and technology use](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/04/03/older-adults-and-technology-use/), Pew Research Center

**International** [Global economy turning corner of Great Recession, but obstacles ahead](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2014/new040214a.htm), IMF [Europe's reforms are beginning to pay off, but more effort needed](http://www.oecd.org/economy/europe-reforms-beginning-to-pay-off-but-continued-effort-needed.htm), OECD [Survey finds one notion of rural/urban Indian divide to be outdated](http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/04/03/india-elections-the-ruralurban-divide-dies-out/#axzz2xpHy2nyB), Financial Times [How reliant is Europe on Russia's gas?](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/04/daily-chart-1) The Economist [About 10% of all German exporting companies export goods to Russia](https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2014/04/PE14_123_51.html;jsessionid=64C6D62E3CAB1E8CD7A9B2F758FCC9C6.cae2), Destatis [Despite perceptions, inequality in Egypt is relatively low](https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/17583/9781464801983.pdf?sequence=1), World Bank

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