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Graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in 2008 borrowed 50% more than their counterparts who graduated in 1996, while graduates who earned an associate’s degree or undergraduate certificate in 2008 borrowed more than twice what their counterparts in 1996 had borrowed.

Asked an open-ended question about whom they consider to be the most important Latino leader in the U.S. today, 74% responded either that they did not know or “no one.”

Republicans who agree with the Tea Party are significantly more anti free trade than are Republicans who disagree with or have no opinion of the Tea Party.

Only about a third of Americans say free trade agreements have been good for the U.S., the lowest level of support in 13 years of Pew Research polling.

Young adults struggle with questions about politics, such as who the next speaker of the House will be.

While most Americans know the deficit is larger now than it was in the 1990s, most are not familiar with where government money goes.

Among internet users, 4% use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla to share their location with friends online.

More than six-in-ten Americans who plan to have a Thanksgiving meal with family members say that 10 or more relatives will be in attendance on Thursday.

Net migration--the number of people who move into a place minus the number who move out--can reflect local economic conditions, but a new analysis of population loss in rural areas finds that other factors also can play a role.

The state of the troubled U.S. economy, the old reliable of news stories, was the biggest topic in the news last week. But the media also focused on some new TSA screening techniques that seemed to poke and provoke some travelers. And continued coverage of the midterms focused on new power players in Washington.