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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Print Still Dominates Newspaper Readership

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One of the many topics examined in Pew's State of the News Media 2015 report is media consumption by platform. Interestingly, print rem...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

American Generations in 2014

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The Millennial generation outnumbered Baby Boomers by more than 3 million in 2014, making it the largest generation by a considerable margin...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

First-Time Homebuyer Watch: 1st Quarter 2015

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Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, first quarter 2015: 45.8% The homeownership rate of households headed by people ...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Debt of Retirees

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Nine percent of the nation's retirees say debt is a major problem for them, and another 22 percent say it's a minor problem. Here is...
Friday, April 24, 2015

Household Income Falls in March 2015

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Median household income stood at $54,203 in March 2015, according to Sentier Research. This was 0.8 percent ($436) lower than the February ...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Worker Confidence in Retirement on the Rise

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Twenty-two percent of workers are very confident they will have enough money for a comfortable retirement, according to the 2015 Retirement ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

American Driving Survey

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American drivers add 29.2 miles a day to their odometer—an average of 10,658 miles a year. They make two trips a day, on average, and spend ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

2002 High School Sophomores, 10 Years Later

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The 57 percent majority of 2002 high school sophomores had earned a postsecondary credential by 2012-13, according to a report by the Nation...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Health Insurance by Region, 2014

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Overall, 16.7 percent of adults aged 18 to 64 were without health insurance when interviewed by the National Health Interview Survey in Janu...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Navigating by Smartphone

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Two out of three (67 percent) smartphone owners use their phones for turn-by-turn navigation while driving, according to a Pew Research Cent...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

How Many $1 Bills?

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Economists study many things and one of them is cash, tracing its flow into and out of your wallet. They collect information about how we us...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Unemployed in the Past 10 Years

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More than one-third of Americans (37 percent) have been unemployed for as long as a month at some point in the past 10 years, according to r...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

How Many Children?

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Percent distribution of women aged 45 to 50 (the age at which women have completed their childbearing) by number of children ever born... ...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Teens and Smartphones

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Nearly three out of four teenagers has a smartphone, according to a Pew Research Center report. Overall, 73 percent of 13-to-17-year-olds ha...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Where Americans Shop for Food

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When Americans shop for food, they don't head to the nearest grocery store, according to the USDA's Economic Research Service. On av...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

Financial Satisfaction Is No Guarantee

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If you feel like your finances are in good shape, you might be in danger. That's because, more often than not, feelings don't reflec...
Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Americans Are Traveling Less

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Americans are traveling less than they did before the Great Recession, according to data collected by the Consumer Expenditure Survey. The n...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Differences in Attitudes by Region

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On many hot-button issues, the attitudes of non-Hispanic Whites in the South differ from the attitudes of non-Hispanic Whites in the Northea...
Monday, April 06, 2015

Who Looks Forward to Getting the Mail?

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Only 41 percent of Americans look forward to getting their (snail) mail each day, according to a Gallup poll. Older people enjoy it more tha...
Friday, April 03, 2015

Smartphone Ownership in 2015

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With 64 percent of Americans owning a smartphone in 2015 (up from 35 percent in 2011), this tool of the Internet age is owned by the majorit...
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Cheryl Russell
Demographer Cheryl Russell was the editorial director of New Strategist Press and the editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine. She has written numerous books about demographic trends. Ms. Russell is a professional demographer with a degree from Cornell University.
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