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Middle Class II 23 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Survey Details: Conducted July 2012 File Release Date: 23 August 2013
King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities 22 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
Five decades after Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer than half (45%) of all Americans say the country ...
Race in America: Tracking 50 Years of Demographic Trends 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Explore the areas where the white-black racial gap has narrowed, widened or remained roughly the same, based on data from U.S. government sources over the past several decades. Hispanic and Asian data...
50 Years After the March on Washington, Many Racial Divides Remain 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Key findings from the report, "King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities"
More Young Adults Live with Their Parents 1 Aug 2013 | 11:17 pm
A record number of Millennials—young adults ages 18 to 31—were living in their parents’ home in 2012 due to a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors, according to a new Pew Research...
A Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home 1 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31—the so-called Millennial generation—were living in their parents’ home, the highest share in at least four decades. The number of young adults d...
More Evidence of Preference for Sons 29 Jul 2013 | 06:57 pm
This posting is an excerpt from a FactTank article about unmarried fatherhood, and which fathers are more likely to acknowledge paternity when asked. Unmarried fathers of sons are slightly more likely...
Untitled 10 Jul 2013 | 07:19 pm
This links to a FactTank posting about a new Statistics Canada report showing that birth rates for the first time are higher for women in their late 30s than in their early 20s. Most births in Canada ...
Birth Rate Trends Differ Notably by Age Group 8 Jul 2013 | 06:44 pm
This is an excerpt from a FactTank posting about new data from the National Center for Health Statistics about birth rates in 2011. Rates for younger women fell to record lows, but rates continued to ...
The Rise of Single Fathers 2 Jul 2013 | 07:56 pm
A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and Amer...
