Publications

This posting links to a new Pew Research Center report that focused on young adults, ages 25 to 32, by education level. It finds that the college-educated not only are better off than the less educated, but that the gap between the two is wider than in the past.

For those who question the value of college in this era of soaring student debt and high unemployment, the attitudes and experiences of today’s young adults—members of the so-called Millennial generation—provide a compelling answer.

Just 4% of LGBT adults in the U.S. said that professional sports leagues are friendly toward LGBT people.

This posting links to a FactTank article about American Community Survey data showing that the rate of new marriages rose in 2012 after declining for the previous three years. The rise is concentrated among certain groups.

The income gap between couples with relatively high and those with relatively low levels of education had widened substantially since 1960, according to a new study.

Today about as many Americans identify themselves as lower or lower-middle class (40%) as say they are in the middle class (44%).