Another year of lackluster payroll growth
Nonfarm payroll jobs grew by 1.6% between December 2012 and December 2013.
Despite recovery, fewer Americans identify as middle class
Today about as many Americans identify themselves as lower or lower-middle class (40%) as say they are in the middle class (44%).
Data Feed: Policy priorities, internet advertising, measles’ resurgence
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
State of the Union 2014: Where Americans stand on key issues
A summary of where Americans stand on ten key issues likely to come up in President Obama's State of the Union address.
Record number of deportations in 2012
Number of immigrants deported by U.S. authorities in fiscal year 2012—a record.
Chart of the Week: How two decades of globalization have changed the world
Globally, incomes have risen fastest for the very well-off and the bottom two-thirds of the world's people, but have stagnated or fallen for the "global upper middle class."
Data Feed: Record low want their representative re-elected, best and worst states, Facebook responds
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
In 2014, Latinos will surpass whites as largest racial/ethnic group in California
According to California Governor Jerry Brown’s new state budget, Latinos are projected to become the largest single racial/ethnic group in the state by March of this year, making up 39% of the state’s population. That will make California only the second state, behind New Mexico, where whites are not the majority and Latinos are the […]
10 facts about Americans and public libraries
Technology and the internet are changing Americans’ reading habits and also their relationship with libraries. But what hasn’t changed is Americans’ love for books.
Anti-poll tax amendment is 50 years old today
The value in today's dollars of the annual poll tax once imposed by several Southern states.
