---
title: "Data Feed: Congress’ shrinking middle ground, internet ad revenue, U.S. global leadership"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-04-11"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/11/data-feed-congress-shrinking-middle-ground-internet-ad-revenue-u-s-global-leadership/"
---

# Data Feed: Congress’ shrinking middle ground, internet ad revenue, U.S. global leadership

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

**Politics** [Vote ratings show how Congress' 'ideological middle' has dwindled](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/10/the-ideological-middle-is-dead-in-congress-really-dead/?la), Washington Post [How Republican and Democratic sex scandals differ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/10/how-republican-and-democratic-sex-scandals-differ/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), Washington Post [N.H. Sen. Shaheen continues to lead all Republican challengers](http://cola.unh.edu/sites/cola.unh.edu/files/research_publications/gsp2014_spring_senate041014_0.pdf), U. of New Hampshire [Rhode Island voters show some support for legalizing marijuana](http://www.brown.edu/academics/taubman-center/research-and-initiatives/public-opinion-polls/statewide-poll-gubernatorial-primaries-legalization-ma), Brown University [Public opinion on civil rights, 50 years after the Civil Rights Act](http://pollingmatters.gallup.com/2014/04/public-opinion-on-civil-rights-50-years.html), Gallup

**Economy **[Preliminary April consumer confidence higher than expected](http://www.businessinsider.com/umich-consumer-confidence-april-advance-2014-4), U. of Michigan/Reuters [What's behind the decline in prime-age (25-54) workers in the labor force?](http://macroblog.typepad.com/macroblog/2014/04/reasons-for-the-decline-in-prime-age-labor-force-participation-.html?d=1&s=tw), Atlanta Fed [Lower prices pulled down natural gas reserves, despite some new production gains](http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=15811), EIA [Chart: How Washington spends your taxes](http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/11/pf/taxes/how-federal-income-taxes-are-spent/index.html?iid=HP_LN), CNN Money [Relationship between single mothers and poverty not as simple as it seems](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/10/the-relationship-between-single-mothers-and-poverty-is-not-as-simple-as-it-seems/?wpisrc=nl_wnkpm), WashPost [Real male-female gap in academe may be representation, not pay](http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/04/11/there-is-a-gender-pay-gap-in-academe-but-it-may-not-be-the-gap-that-matters/), Chronicle of Higher Ed. [Interactive: How male and female pay stacks up in Washington](http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/interactive-how-male-and-female-pay-stacks-up-in-washington-20140411), National Journal [Internet ad revenue surpassed TV ad revenue in 2013](http://www.iab.net/media/file/IAB_Internet_Advertising_Revenue_Report_FY_2013.pdf), PwC/IAB

**Health & Society** [8.3% of baseball's top tier players are black, down from 19% in 1986](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/sports/baseball/mlb-report-highlights-sobering-number-of-black-players.html?_r=0), New York Times [Top reason seniors go online: communicating with friends and family](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2014/04/11-why-senior-citizens-use-the-internet), Brookings [People in West, Midwest most likely to say their teachers are well-respected](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168464/states-west-midwest-lead-nation-teacher-respect.aspx), Gallup [Which cities' residents are most satisfied with their communities?](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168485/city-satisfaction-highest-fort-collins-loveland-colo.aspx) Gallup [Grads have less faith in value of higher ed but would do it again anyway](http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/are-college-degrees-inherited-20140410), Nat'l Journal [Infographic: What we do and don't know about how Obamacare has worked](http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-04-10/obamacare-before-and-after.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk), Bloomberg

**International **[U.S. tops other global leaders in approval; Russian leadership has lowest ratings](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168467/tops-global-leaders-approval.aspx), Gallup [37% of young adults in EU have completed college, up from 24% in 2002](http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-11042014-AP/EN/3-11042014-AP-EN.PDF), Eurostat [Across OECD, tax burdens on labor income continues to rise](http://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-burdens-on-labour-income-continue-to-rise-across-the-oecd.htm), OECD [India, China, Nigeria had largest share of world's 'extreme poor' in 2010](http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Resources/334934-1327948020811/8401693-1397074077765/Prosperity_for_All_Final_2014.pdf), World Bank

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