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From Millennials in the workforce to religion in America, our most popular posts told important stories about trends shaping our world.
College-educated women have an almost eight-in-ten chance of still being married after two decades.
The European Union is awash with languages, but European students study one foreign language far more than any other.
Four-in-ten immigrants arriving in the U.S. in the past five years had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. In 1970, only 20% of newly arrived immigrants were similarly educated.
As the UN looks to adopt new goals for the next 15 years, sub-Saharan Africa still lags behind other developing regions in the areas of poverty, health care and education.
When asked a series of 12 science-related questions, whites, on average, fared better than blacks or Hispanics. What’s behind this knowledge gap?
Attention, parents of third graders: If demographic patterns hold, your children could be in the largest U.S. college freshman class ever.
