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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Vaccination Rates by Age, February 3-14

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The vaccination rate is slowly rising. As of mid-February, 18 percent of Americans aged 18 or older had received at least one dose of a Covi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Less Educated Counties are Falling Behind

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The U.S. population is getting better educated. But only in some places and not in others. Among the nation's 3,138 counties, the 58 per...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Boomers Still Have A Grip on Congress

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The Baby-Boom generation dominates both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. According to an analysis of the 117th Congress by ...
Monday, February 22, 2021

What Covid Will Do to Jobs

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This has been a helluva year for those who work with demographic and economic statistics. Everything is topsy turvy. The usually dependable ...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

1.0 Year Decline in Life Expectancy, January-June 2020

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Yep, it happened. As projected by a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a 1....
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

62% of Adults Are Cellphone Only

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When Steve Jobs unveiled the first Apple iPhone on January 29, 2007, only 13 percent of adults lived in a "wireless-only" househol...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Urban Exodus? Not So Fast

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Did the coronavirus pandemic really cause Americans to flee the cities? This notion has been bandied about by the media for months, but the ...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

21 Million Say No to Covid Vaccine

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The percentage of the population that has received at least one shot of a Covid vaccine climbed from 8 percent in mid-January to 13 percent ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

The Demographics of the Viral Stock Frenzy

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How many Americans bought GameStop or other viral stock during the speculative trading frenzy in January? According to a Yahoo Finance-Harri...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

College Graduates 10 Years Later

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Forty percent of Millennials have a bachelor's degree, making them the best-educated generation. They are paying a steep price for those...
Monday, February 08, 2021

The Demographics of the Insurrection

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Who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6? Knowing who they are is just as important as knowing their ideology and beliefs, according to Un...
Thursday, February 04, 2021

Kind of a Drag

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Despite being more educated than any other generation, Millennials are having a tough time. They are highly educated but burdened by student...
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

First-Time Homebuyer Watch: 4th Quarter 2020

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Homeownership rate of householders aged 30 to 34, fourth quarter 2020: 49.2% Homeownership rates in the 4th quarter of 2020 have fallen from...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Prescription Meds for Mental Health

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Twenty-one percent of Americans aged 18 or older have taken a prescription medication in the past four weeks to help with their mental healt...
Monday, February 01, 2021

What's the Most Important Thing Children Should Learn?

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What is the single most important thing children should learn to prepare them for life? The largest share of Americans (42 percent) say it i...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Vaccination Rates by Demographic Characteristic

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How many Americans have received at least the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine? The Census Bureau recently added this question to its biwe...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

How Many Americans Are Receptive to Fascism?

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One of the questions on the personality test that probes for vulnerability to fascism ( the F-Scale ) is this: "Obedience and respect f...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Predictions about the Housing Market

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The housing market is in a frenzy because of the coronavirus pandemic. The housing inventory is at a record low of 380,000—48 percent below ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Biggest Job Declines, 2019 to 2029

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Which occupation is going to shed the most jobs over the next decade? Just as the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the occupations likely...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

Where Americans Get Their News

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Digital devices are the news source for the great majority of Americans. Fully 86 percent of the public "sometimes" or "often...
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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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