Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
College remains a near universal aspiration in this country, even in the face of steeply rising costs. Among parents of a child ages 17 or younger, 94% say they expect their child (or children) to attend college.
More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) view the increase in intermarriage as a change for the better in our society.
More than four-in-ten (44%) Americans say they expect economic conditions to be better a year from now, up from 34% in January and 28% in December.
Between 2008 and 2010, about one-in-five (22%) of all newlyweds in Western states married someone of a different race or ethnicity.
Six-in-ten or more Republicans, Democrats and independents who know about the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allows unlimited independent expenditures on political ads agree the new rules have had a negative impact on the 2012 presidential campaign.
A slight majority (51%) of independents support President Obama in a hypothetical general election matchup with Mitt Romney. Independents have shifted from Romney to Obama since January.
If asked to choose between a job with higher pay and one with more security, 56% of employed young adults would pick the position with more job security.
Just under half (49%) of adults ages 18 to 34 say that because of economic conditions over the past few years, they have taken a job they didn’t want in order to pay the bills.
Since the 1990s, changes in military policies — and a decade of involvement in wars — have contributed to an increase in combat exposure for women in the military. Among female veterans who had served and left the military before 1990, just 7% were exposed to combat. This figure rises to 24% among post-1990 female veterans.
Roughly a quarter of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters have annual family incomes under $30,000, and 57% of them say that the government does not do enough for poor people in this country.
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