Who’s not online? 5 factors tied to the digital divide
An explanation of five factors related to internet non-use.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Andrea Caumont
Associate Director, Digital Outreach
Andrea Caumont is an associate director at Pew Research Center.
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12 trends shaping digital news
How the internet and digital devices are changing our news consumption habits.
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20 facts from Pew Research Center
These findings drew broad public interest.
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Unauthorized Immigration
Slideshow of key findings from the report, “Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed”
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North-South divide over abortion grows
There is a widening gap in support for legal abortion between New England (75%) and the South Central states (40%).
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Most Americans confident new medical treatments have been tested
Seven-in-ten Americans are confident that new medical treatments are tested before being made available to the public.
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More of today’s single mothers have never been married
More than four-in-ten single mothers have never been married, up from just 4% in 1960.
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Americans skeptical of value of enforcing marijuana laws
Roughly three–in-four Americans say government efforts to enforce marijuana laws cost more than they are worth.
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Chart of the week: The problem of prison overcrowding
Prison overcrowding is a problem for countries around the world, including the United States, where 30,000 California prison inmates initiated a hunger strike in July to protest solitary confinement policies at the state’s prisons. Now in its fourth week, nearly 500 inmates are still refusing meals. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the state to reduce […]
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As Supreme Court Weighs Voting Rights Act Changes, No Racial Gap in Voting Problems
By Andrew Kohut In the next several weeks the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the requirement that several states, mostly in the South, get “pre-clearance” from the Justice Department before they make any changes to their election laws. The requirement was part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which […]
