---
title: "Data Feed: Democrats and inequality, remittances from migrant women, gasoline taxes, India’s big election"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-04-07"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/07/data-feed-democrats-and-inequality-remittances-from-migrant-women-gasoline-taxes-indias-big-election/"
---

# Data Feed: Democrats and inequality, remittances from migrant women, gasoline taxes, India’s big election

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

**Politics **[Democrats represent House districts with most income inequality](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/the-polarized-partisan-geography-of-inequality/360130/), The Atlantic [Support for Ukraine intervention linked to ignorance on where it is](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/), Monkey Cage [D.C. voting spotlights demographic divides among Democrats](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/04/04/politics-counts-d-c-voting-spotlights-divide-among-democrats/?mod=WSJBlog), The Wall Street Journal [What trade associations opposing higher minimum wage are spending](http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-political-money-against-the-min.html), Open Secrets

**Economy** [Cities with widest rich-poor gap tend to have least affordable housing](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/economy/cities-advancing-inequality-fight.html?hp&_r=0), NYT [Consumer spending stalls in March, no year-to-year growth](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168362/consumer-spending-stalls-march-no-year-year-growth.aspx), Gallup [Interactive: What you'll pay in gas taxes across the U.S.](http://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/taxes/state-gas-taxes/), CNN Money [How aging U.S. population may affect labor-force participation](http://www.businessinsider.com/us-demographic-changes-2014-4), Business Insider [Inflation may hit the poor the hardest](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inflation-may-hit-the-poor-hardest/), FiveThirtyEight [Graph: The long-term unemployment problem](http://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/04/a-long-term-unemployed-problem/), St. Louis Fed [Temp jobs surge as firms contain expenses](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303910404579485303369082202?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news&mg=reno64-wsj), The Wall Street Journal [Pay lagging for associate professors](http://www.aaup.org/reports-publications/2013-14salarysurvey), [interactive](http://chronicle.com/article/2013-14-AAUP-Faculty-Salary/145679/#id=table), AAUP via Chronicle of Higher Education

**Health & Society** [Most deportations follow minor crimes, records show](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/us/more-deportations-follow-minor-crimes-data-shows.html?hpw&rref=us), New York Times [Remittances from migrant women rose from 2009-2013](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303847804579479690660408488?mod=WSJ_hps_sections_news&mg=reno64-wsj), WSJ [Uninsured rate is the lowest since 2008](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168248/uninsured-rate-lowest-2008.aspx), Gallup [How academic 'stars' affect productivity](http://www.nber.org/papers/w20012), NBER [The ideal lengths of every tweet, Facebook post and headline](http://www.fastcompany.com/3028656/work-smart/the-proven-ideal-length-of-every-tweet-facebook-post-and-headline-online), Fast Company [Three months into legal marijuana, Denver's crime rate steady or lower](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/3/5563134/marijuana-legalization-crime-denver-colorado), Vox [You're less likely to die in a car crash nowadays](http://www.vox.com/2014/4/2/5572648/why-are-fewer-people-dying-in-car-crashes), Vox

**International** [Global economy wobbly, but may have some staying power](http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2014/04/07-global-economic-recovery-prasad), Brookings/FT TIGER index [Nigeria's economy now biggest in Africa, passing South Africa](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304819004579485360572851126), The Wall Street Journal [Talk gets cheaper: The rise of the low-cost smartphone](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2014/04/daily-chart-2), The Economist [Facts and figures on India's election, the world's biggest (and longest)](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/06/the-worlds-biggest-election-starts-monday/?wpisrc=nl_fix), Washington Post

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