About six-in-ten Americans looking forward to Olympics
The share of Americans who say they’re looking forward to the Winter Olympics.
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Drew DeSilver
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Drew DeSilver is a senior writer at Pew Research Center.
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Chart of the Week: 63 years of global climate change
More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
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Another year of lackluster payroll growth
Nonfarm payroll jobs grew by 1.6% between December 2012 and December 2013.
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State of the Union 2014: Where Americans stand on key issues
A summary of where Americans stand on ten key issues likely to come up in President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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Chart of the Week: How two decades of globalization have changed the world
Globally, incomes have risen fastest for the very well-off and the bottom two-thirds of the world’s people, but have stagnated or fallen for the “global upper middle class.”
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Anti-poll tax amendment is 50 years old today
The value in today’s dollars of the annual poll tax once imposed by several Southern states.
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Middle East tensions top global trend for 2014
The top score (on a 1-to-5 scale) in a World Economic Forum survey of globally significant trends was “rising Middle East tensions.”
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Most young Americans say Snowden has served the public interest
Young adults are significantly more likely to support Edward Snowden and his leaking of classified details of government surveillance programs.
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Overall book readership stable, but e-books becoming more popular
The typical U.S. adult read five books in the past 12 months.
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Chart of the Week: Many in the Americas say high joblessness can justify a coup
Significant minorities in several nations of the Americas say high unemployment would justify a military takeover of their country’s government.
