Age & Generations

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Lower-income adults with an aging parent, spouse or partner are more likely to be caregivers than those in higher income tiers.

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reportNov 1, 2005

The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens

A report on high school enrollment points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before reaching the United States.
presentationOct 17, 2005

The Future of the Internet as Baby Boomers Age

In ten years, the Baby Boomers will age into the 65+ demographic and change everything about the “wired senior” group, but a great many offline Americans may be with us for years to come.
reportSep 2, 2005

From the VCR to the Internet—some things never change

There’s the old saw that if you can’t program your VCR (or now maybe DVD or even TIVO?) you should just hand the remote to the nearest child. Recent data collected by the Pew Internet Project suggest that the same is true when it comes to the inte…
reportAug 24, 2005

Teens Who Don’t Use the Internet

Even with an overwhelming majority of teens online, there are about three million youth between ages 12 and 17 who do not use the internet. What about the 13% of teens who aren’t online?
reportAug 8, 2005

Senior Bloggers

Bloggers over the age of 65 are a pretty rare, but interesting, group.
reportAug 2, 2005

The Internet at School

There has been a 45% increase since 2000 in the number of teenagers who use the internet at school.
reportJul 27, 2005

Teens and Technology

Today’s American teens live in a world enveloped by communications technologies; the internet and cell phones have become a central force that fuels the rhythm of daily life.
reportMar 21, 2005

College Searching Online

The majority of teens and nearly half of online adults use the internet to search for colleges or schools.
reportMar 17, 2005

Protecting Teens Online

54% of parents with teenagers use internet filters â€“ a big jump from 2000. Yet both teens and parents believe that youth do things online that their parents would not like.
reportMar 16, 2005

More Wired Seniors than Ever

26% of Americans age 65+ go online.