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May 24 2021
News
Over the past century, African-American life expectancy and education levels have soared
AT THE turn of the twentieth century, a newborn white American could expect to live for around 48 years. That was 15 years longer than a newborn African-American could expect. Improvements in hygiene, medicine and other public-health measures led those numbers to rise dramatically. By mid-century, life expectancy for African-Americans had nearly doubled, to 61 years, while for white Americans
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Dec 14 2020
News
CNN Ratings Surge as Network Boss’s Fate Is Uncertain
CNN is riding a ratings high in the aftermath of the election. Whether the network boss who oversaw those gains will stick around is an open question.
CNN averaged more total-day viewers than Fox News since Election Day through Dec. 8, a 35 day span, the first time it has won such a long stretch in that category in 19 years. CNN also bested the competition over that period among viewers
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Sep 21 2020
News
How Latino voters could swing the presidential election
White suburbanites have been at the center of discussion for most of the presidential campaign. Joe Biden’s ability, or lack thereof, to cut into President Trump’s support among suburban swing voters will be what ultimately decides the election, many experts believe.
While there’s truth to that view, the focus has shifted recently to another demographic group that may play just as big a
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Nov 01 2019
News
98% of Hispanics and Latinos do not identify as 'Latinx'
A new survey found that 98% of Americans of Latin American descent prefer terms other than "Latinx" to describe themselves.
The poll, conducted by researchers at the Hispanic market research company, ThinkNow, revealed that 44% of people of Latin American descent prefer the term "Hispanic" and 24% prefer the term "Latino" or "Latina," while another 11% wanted to be referred to by their
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Sep 17 2016
News
Campaign 2016 is divisive. Will governing in 2017 be worse?
Whoever wins the presidency this Election Day, they will be faced with leading a partisan American electorate increasingly divided by race, religion, and other basic demographic measures.
In many ways the two great parties that govern America are like two icebergs slowly floating farther and farther apart. In their makeup they are less alike than at any time in the past quarter-century
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Jul 06 2012
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Obama struggles to shine again in Rust Belt
As President Obama is in the middle of a two-day “Betting on America bus tour across Ohio and Pennsylvania, political analysts said he will have to reassemble the “hope and change demographic coalition of 2008 that relied on a high turnout of youths and blacks, and winning a larger-than-usual percentage of Hispanics and whites. By most accounts, that will be easier said than done.
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Oct 07 2019
News
New study says tanning salons could be targeting gay men and giving them cancer
A new study says that tanning salons, which are apparently more concentrated in neighborhoods with high numbers of male gay couples, could be targeting their gay male demographic and giving them cancer.
Researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine found that tanning salons were twice as likely to be located within one mile of neighborhoods with higher gay population
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Nov 14 2020
Analysis
Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?
The final projections for the 2020 election brought with them a new electoral map, one that highlights the changing shape of America and the divisions that now define the Democratic and Republican parties in the Trump era. President-elect Joe Biden took back three Northern states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — that President Trump carried in 2016. He also scored important
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Jan 06 2014
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Carney: We Can't Tell You How Many Young People Have Signed Up for Obamacare
Speaking to reporters from the White House Monday, Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked by ABC's Jonathan Karl how many people between the ages of 18 and 35 have signed up for Obamacare.
"We don't have the data to provide, we don't have data that is ready to be released," Carney said."Demographic data is not available."
The Obamacare e
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Mar 28 2015
News
Marriage's tangible benefits need to be championed, experts say
The decline of the family in America is real, and researchers hope that a better understanding of what is happening to the fundamental unit of society will help to turn the trends.
"Marriage is viewed as a capstone rather than a cornerstone, as it used to be part of setting up your adult life," said Sam Sturgeon, a senior research manager with Bonneville Communications and president of
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