Hispanics and the GED
Just one-in-ten among Hispanic high school dropouts has a GED, far less than the percentages of white (29%) and black (20%) high school dropouts with GEDs.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Just one-in-ten among Hispanic high school dropouts has a GED, far less than the percentages of white (29%) and black (20%) high school dropouts with GEDs.
A quarter of households have no landline service, posing a large problem for pollsters who rely on telephones to reach potential respondents.
A record four-in-ten births were to unmarried women in 2008.
In 2008, more children were born to women older than age 34 (14% of all births) than to women younger than age 20 (10%).
A plurality of Americans (46%) say two children is the ideal number for a family.
In only one of 29 weeks studied did blogs, Twitter and YouTube share the same top story — a week in June 2009 focused on the Iranian protests.
More than 99% of the news stories linked to in blogs come from traditional media sources such as newspapers and broadcast networks.
A reader asks: Do people in foreign countries find Americans polite? A Pew Research survey finds few in Western counties call them “rude,” including just 12% of Germans.
Reputation management has become a defining feature of online life, especially among younger Americans. Search engines and social media sites play a central role in building one’s reputation. Many have begun changing privacy settings on profiles, customizing who can see what and deleting unwanted information online.
How people monitor and maintain their identity through search and social media.
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