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title: "Data Feed: More low-wage jobs, political implications of immigration reform, the rising retirement age"
description: "A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers."
date: "2014-04-28"
authors:
  - name: "George Gao"
    job_title: "Former "
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/george-gao/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/04/28/data-feed-more-low-wage-jobs-political-implications-of-immigration-reform-rising-retirement-age/"
---

# Data Feed: More low-wage jobs, political implications of immigration reform, the rising retirement age

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

**Politics **[Poll shows problems for Obama, peril for Senate Democrats](http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-economy/poll-shows-problems-for-obama-peril-for-senate-democrats-20140428), National Journal/Allstate [Democrats' midterm turnout problem is worst in North Carolina](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/upshot/why-the-democrats-turnout-problem-is-worst-in-north-carolina.html?rref=upshot), The Upshot/NYT [How immigration reform could change political landscape](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/26/why-immigration-reform-isnt-the-answer-to-republicans-demographic-woes/), Washington Post [Colorado voters feel good about legalized marijuana](http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/colorado/release-detail?ReleaseID=2035), Quinnipiac [Legislative Explorer: Visualizing the lawmaking process](http://legex.org/), U. of Washington via [FlowingData](http://flowingdata.com/2014/04/28/lawmaking-through-the-house-and-senate-visualized/) [A history of Maine gubernatorial rematches](http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cspg/smartpolitics/2014/04/cutler_vs_lepage_ii_a_history.php), University of Minnesota

**Economy** [Recession and recovery have traded higher-wage jobs for lower-wage ones](http://www.nelp.org/page/content/lowwagerecovery2014/), NELP [Income inequality isn't as stark in college towns as you may think](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inequality-in-college-towns/), FiveThirtyEight [Middle-class families squeezed as expenses soar, wages stall](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/happy-days-no-more-middle-class-families-squeezed-as-expenses-soar-wages-stall/2014/04/26/f4a857f0-7a47-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html?wpmk=MK0000200), Washington Post [Nearly 7.7 million families contained at least one unemployed adult](http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/looking-at-unemployment-from-a-family-perspective/), BLS via 538

**Health & Society** [Public high schools reached 80% graduation rate milestone](http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_289563/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=mnjNqfRq), [data](http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2014391), NCES via AP [Fewer slots for Americans as elite colleges admit more foreign students](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/upshot/getting-into-the-ivies.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0), The Upshot/NYT [Average U.S. retirement age rises to 62](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168707/average-retirement-age-rises.aspx), Gallup [One-third of Americans haven't visited a dentist in past year](http://www.gallup.com/poll/168716/one-third-americans-haven-visited-dentist-past-year.aspx), Gallup [New urban-rural classification scheme for measuring health](http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02_166.pdf), CDC [Users of cholesterol drugs are eating more, getting fatter](http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx), JAMA Internal Medicine [How big viral publishers stack up against each other](http://digiday.com/publishers/winners-loser-start-emerge-viral-publisher-traffic-race), comScore via Digiday

**International **[Steady growth projected for Asia](http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/reo/2014/apd/eng/areo0414.pdf), International Monetary Fund [New survey results from 60 countries, 2010-2014](http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp), World Values Survey

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