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Among Democratic voters, just 11% say the Democratic candidate will definitely win, while 32% see a Democratic victory as probable.
Democratic voters are far more likely than Republicans to decline to express an opinion about the outcome (34% vs. 15%).
Currently, Democrats are more definite about their general election preferences than are Republicans: 73% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they will definitely vote for the party’s nominee, while 59% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say they will definitely vote for Trump.
The survey was conducted before Trump’s Senate impeachment trial.
Yet Republicans are far more confident of victory in November.
(See this report for views of the Senate trial and Donald Trump.)
Nearly four-in-ten Republican voters (38%) think Trump will definitely win reelection, while another 41% say he will probably win.
While the British are also concerned about inequality, fears about religious and ethnic hatred are even more common in the United Kingdom (39% name it top threat).
People in Spain and Greece, among the hardest hit by the Eurocrisis, are especially worried.
Before talk about a “triple dip recession” made headlines, Europeans have been overwhelmed with economic concerns and the growing gap between the rich and the poor is high on that list.
Overall, a median of 32% across the seven EU nations surveyed name inequality as the top threat to the world.
In fact, worries about inequality have doubled in Spain since 2007, as well as in Italy, another economically damaged southern European country.
The is a less marked increase around 2013 however the number of employees in the Americas is still rising.
We can see that the number of Deloitte employees is pretty much constantly increasing over the ten year period shown.
In 2010, we see around 75,000 employees in the Americas, however by 2020 we have reached almost 150,000.
The increase becomes faster after around 2016 as we see a steeper line.
The vast majority of Americans – 96% – now own a cellphone of some kind.
Along with mobile phones, Americans own a range of other information devices.
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults now own desktop or laptop computers, while roughly half now own tablet computers and roughly half own e-reader devices.
The share of Americans that own smartphones is now 81%, up from just 35% in Pew Research Center’s first survey of smartphone ownership conducted in 2011.
The U.S. economy employed 2 million fewer persons in the fourth quarter of 2008 than it employed in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Thus, as workers retire or leave employment for other reasons, they are increasingly likely to be replaced by native-born Hispanics.
The unemployment rates for these groups increased by similar amounts from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008.
Changes in unemployment during the recession reveal a rapidly worsening situation for foreign-born Hispanics, native-born Hispanics and blacks in the labor market.
The native-born Latino labor force is increasing more rapidly than the labor force for any other group—4.8% compared with only 0.7% growth in the U.S. labor force.
However, the number of unemployed persons increased at a much faster rate for foreign-born Hispanics.
Among major racial and ethnic groups, only native-born Hispanics added jobs in the past year.
But this was principally a function of demographics.
Nearly two-thirds of women (64%) favor stricter gun laws, compared with 55% of men.
There are also gender and educational differences in these views.
Adults with at least a four-year college degree are more likely than those who have not completed college to support stricter laws (72% vs. 55%).
With the election still close to a year away, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they have given at least some thought to the candidates.
Currently, 86% of Republicans say they have given a lot or some thought to the presidential candidates, compared with 75% of Democrats and 72% of independents.
The chart shows that the FBA usage amongst top marketplace sellers was highest in the USA, followed (in descending order) by Canada, Spain, Italy, Japan, France, India, the UK, and Australia.
The share of households with a computer at home worldwide has grown in the 14 years period time by almost 2 times if we compare the year 2005 with the year 2019.
The other core Republican group – Main Street Republicans – are more negative about Wall Street’s impact on the economy; just 36% say it helps more than it hurts, while 45% say the opposite.
Main Street Republicans are socially and fiscally conservative, but are much more skeptical of business than are Staunch Conservatives.
Dental coverage fell from 56.7% to 50.3%, and life insurance benefits dropped from 49.1% to 41.7%.
The results, included in the University of Georgia’s “Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates” reveal that just 55.5% of 2009 journalism and communication graduates with a bachelor degree were able to find full-time work within a year of leaving school.
The most recent masters degree recipients fared little better, with their employment rate dropping to 61.9% from 65.4% in 2008.
At the same time, benefits continued to be cut across the board, with only 52.9% of the 2009 employed grads receiving major medical coverage at work compared with 59.2% the previous year.
This daunting job market was further compounded by stagnating salaries and eroding benefits, according to the survey.
The median annual wage for full-time employed 2009 bachelor degree recipients again stood at $30,000, the same number it has been since 2006, although inflation edged up in the past year.
That is down 4.9 percentage points from the year before and stands in stark contrast with the 70.2% of graduates who found work as recently as 2007.
But far smaller shares of the public expect that Trump and Democrats will work together: Half of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely Trump will work with Democrats in Washington to address important issues facing the country, while roughly as many (47%) expect Democrats in Washington will work with Trump.
Democrats, in particular, are skeptical that Trump will cooperate with their party: Just 31% of Democrats (compared with 73% of Republicans) say Trump is likely to work with Democrats in Washington.
From March to May, congressional districts in the most urbanized parts of the country were experiencing about five times as many deaths on average compared with those in the least dense parts of the country, and in some places this disparity was much larger.
However, by the summertime the urban-rural split had largely disappeared, and over the last several months, those districts with small shares of residents in densely populated places have been experiencing twice as many deaths as those in the parts of the country where all or nearly all residents live in urban neighborhoods.
Early in the course of the pandemic, the health impacts were felt most severely in dense urban centers.
More than half of Americans (55%) say they followed news about the oil leak very closely.
As efforts to stop a major underwater oil leak faltered and President Obama traveled to Louisiana to assess the early damage, the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico grabbed public attention and dominated media coverage last week.
Close to six-in-ten (58%) say they followed this news more closely than any other major story, according to the latest News Interest Index survey, conducted May 27-30 among 1,001 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
One week earlier, 47% said they were following news about the leak very closely.
Among the countries surveyed, South Korea stands out as the most heavily connected society, with 96% of adults reporting internet use.
This pattern has been consistent across prior surveys and remains today for both internet use and smartphone ownership.
Internet penetration rates – as measured by internet use or smartphone ownership – remain high in North America and much of Europe, as well as in parts of the Asia-Pacific.
Richer countries, as measured by gross domestic product per capita (purchasing power parity), tend to have higher rates of internet use, while poorer countries tend to have lower rates.
In Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, the U.S., Israel, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain, roughly nine-in-ten report internet use.
The global digital divide is largely an economic story.
But the gap in smartphone ownership is narrower than in the past, as many move directly from not owning a phone at all to owning a mobile device.
Landline phones are simply being skipped by large numbers of people in emerging and developing markets.
The pattern of smartphone ownership is similar to internet use, with people in wealthier countries exhibiting higher rates of ownership.
Yet, others are not far behind.
Highest number of births have been in 2015-2016.
From 2000 to 2020 there is a clear upward trend.
Number of births never dropped below 10.000.
(Because their experiment did not use a random sample of the adult population, the researchers do not attempt to estimate the actual size of the country’s gay and lesbian population.)
In the results using the experimental technique, self-reports of non-heterosexual identity amounted to 19% of those surveyed using the Veiled Report methods – 65% higher than the 11% in the control group.
However, those in the Veiled Report treatment were less likely than those in the Direct Report treatment to say that a homosexual person “can change their sexual orientation if they choose to do so” (22% vs. 15%).
The experimental method also increased the rates of anti-gay sentiment.
“We find substantial under-reporting of LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] identity and behaviors as well as underreporting of anti-gay sentiment …even under anonymous and very private conditions,” the researchers wrote in a working paper just published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The share reporting same-sex sexual experiences also grew from 17% in the control group to 27% in the Veiled Report group, they reported.
For example, the share who disapproved of having an openly gay manager at work increased from 16% in the control group to 27% in the Veiled Report group.
As the authors suggest, “This indicates that participants saw it more socially desirable to report that sexual orientation is changeable, which goes in the opposite direction of a general ‘pro-LGBT’ norm.”
The proportion who thought it should be legal to discriminate when hiring on the basis of sexual orientation also rose from 14% to 25%.
Over time the Total assets of WD-40 Company increases in dollars, however, there is a slight decrease before a further increase.
Fathers saw a similar rise in the share not employed, from 1.7% to 4.5%.
The decrease in workplace activity was more modest among fathers with older children.
For example, among fathers with children ages 14 to 17, the overall share who were at work fell from 87.5%% in September 2019 to 85.1% in September 2020.
These shares have dropped since September 2019 for all groups of mothers, with the decrease among mothers with children ages 3 to 5 or ages 6 to 13 (6.7 percentage points each) being greater than among other mothers.
In September 2020, 53.9% of these mothers were employed and at work, compared with 70.4% of mothers whose youngest child was 14 to 17 years old.
Among fathers with children younger than 3, the share who were working fell from 91.9% in September 2019 to 85.0% in September 2020.
The downturn did increase unemployment across the board.
Reflecting the gender gap in childcare, mothers with children younger than 3 are less likely to be at work.
Among mothers, the share of the working-age population, ages 16 and older, that was not employed increased from 2.2% in September 2019 to 4.7% in September 2020.
Among mothers, those with children ages 3 and older experienced a slightly greater decrease in the share employed and at work; among fathers, the decrease in this share was greater among those with children younger than 3.
Once the number of fans hit 2,5 million in March 2015 it stayed at the number of higher until September 2020 except for the two years of September 2012 - September 2014 when the number fell sharply from nearly 3 million to less than 500,000.
That is indicative of substantial ongoing growth of employment for immigrant Latinos in the construction industry but at a somewhat slower rate than in the previous three years.
Likewise, the percentage annual growth in construction employment measured on a quarterly basis was lower in the first quarter of 2007 than it had been in the three previous years (Figure 8).
From the beginning of 2004 through the end of 2006, the employment of foreign-born Latinos in the construction industry increased by an average of 17.4%.
In the first quarter of 2007, it was up 10.9% compared to the first quarter of 2006.
Four-in-ten say they followed news about the aftermath of the earthquake and relief efforts “most closely” last week, far more than said the same about the debate over health care reform (18%) or reports about the condition of the U.S. economy (15%).
Fewer that one-in-ten (8%) say they followed news about the State of the Union speech more closely than any other story, according to the latest News Interest Index survey, conducted Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 among 1,020 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Reporting on the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake made up 11% of the newshole examined.
In a week when the media focused heavily on Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address and the state of the economy, Americans continued to track news about the earthquake in Haiti more closely than any other major news story.
The media, on the other hand, gave the most coverage to the president’s speech (19%) and news about the economic crisis (18%), according to the separate analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
He is closely followed by 42-year-old Sen. Marco Rubio with a 50% favorable rating.
Current Republican national leadership includes Rep. Paul Ryan (age 43) with a 65% favorable rating among Republicans and Independents who lean Republican according to a recent Pew Research Center survey.
The youngest Republican, Sen. Ted Cruz (age 40), is still not well known by most Republicans nationally.
Not far behind Ryan is Sen. Rand Paul (age 50) who has a 55% favorable rating.
Chris Christie at age 50 gets a 47% favorable rating from the GOP faithful.
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In contrast, the Republican party’s older establishment leadership: House Speaker John Boehner (age 63) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (71) get markedly lower ratings.
In October 2019, roughly nine-in-ten Democrats with a high level of knowledge about science (89%) said human activity contributes a great deal to climate change, compared with 41% of Democrats with low science knowledge, based on an 11-item knowledge index.
These findings illustrate that the relationship between people’s level of science knowledge and their attitudes can be complex.
A similar pattern was found regarding people’s beliefs about energy issues.
By contrast, Republicans with a high level of science knowledge were no more likely than those with a low level of knowledge to say human activity plays a strong role in climate change.
Partisanship is a stronger factor in people’s beliefs about climate change than is their level of knowledge and understanding about science.
Across the period shown there has been a steady decrease in agriculture.
There are a few points where there was a slight increase, but the overall pattern is downwards.
The biggest increase in heart transplants occurred between the years of 1985 to 1990 where it went from around 750 to just over 2000 heart transplants.
The highest number of heart transplants occurred in 2018, with just under 3,500 heart transplants.
There has been a steep increase in heart transplants in the U.S. from the years 1975 to 2018.
The lowest number of heart transplants in the U.S. occurred in 1975 with just over 0.
Roughly three-quarters of Republicans (74%) are very concerned about the weapons program, compared with 66% of Democrats.
There is a larger division by age on concern about the North’s nukes.
However, when it comes to concerns about North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, there is a slight partisan difference.
Nearly eight-in-ten Americans ages 50 and older (78%) say they are very concerned about North Korea having nuclear weapons, compared with only 42% of 18- to 29-year-olds.
Most years had between 2.25 million and 3.25 million.
2012 had the highest attendance of 3.5 million.
2008 had the lowest attendance at about 2million.
i really do not know what to say here other than Canada lead the way in machinery and equipment in the year 2015.
The price of machinery and equipment rose dramatically from 2014.
About two-in-ten (19%), on the other hand, say elected officials have lower moral standards than ordinary Americans, according to the latest national survey conducted June 9-12 among 1,002 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post.
Most Americans attribute the series of public sex scandals in recent years involving politicians more to the heightened scrutiny they face than to lower moral standards among elected officials.
Among the 19% who attribute the scandals to lower moral standards among elected officials, most (13% of the public) say that when people get into positions of power, they tend to lose their moral standards, while 4% say that politics attracts the kind of people who have lower moral standards.
A 57%-majority says elected officials just get caught more often because they are under greater scrutiny.
(For more, see “Interest in Foreign News Declines,” June 6, 2012.)
Ambassador Christopher Stevens very closely (43%) as tracked campaign news very closely (42%).
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 13-16 among 1,001 adults, finds that public interest in the presidential campaign has increased sharply in the past week.
News interest in events in the Middle East is as high today as it was in the early days of the “Arab spring” last year, or when the U.S. and its allies launched air strikes on Libya in April 2011.
About four-in-ten Americans (43%) have followed news about the attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and the killing of an American ambassador very closely, making it by far the most closely followed foreign news story of the year.
As many followed the recent spate of attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East and the killing of U.S.
Currently, 42% say they are following news about the presidential candidates very closely, up from 31% a week earlier, immediately after the party conventions.
Public interest in the debt stalemate has risen over the past month, from 29% during the first week of July to 38% this week.
Interest is well below the 47% who tracked the budget showdown in early April, but that survey was conducted over the final weekend before a government shutdown loomed.
The week earlier – roughly comparable in time to this week – just 30% were following the shutdown debate very closely.
The survey was conducted before the prime-time speeches on July 25 by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner.
Currently, 38% say they followed news about the debt limit debate very closely, little different from the 34% that said this one week earlier according to the latest Weekly News Interest Index survey, conducted July 21-24 among 999 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
The majority of Baby Boomers (U.S. adults born 1946 to 1964) are still in the labor force, and the oldest among them are staying in the labor force at the highest annual rate for people their age in more than half a century.
However, in part because of older Boomers’ robust participation rates, 10,000 Boomers are not exiting the labor force every day.
In 2018, 29% of Boomers ages 65 to 72 were working or looking for work, outpacing the labor market engagement of the Silent Generation (21%) and the Greatest Generation (19%) when they were the same age, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of official labor force data.
Rather, the Boomer labor force has been declining by 2.2 million on average each year since 2010, or about 5,900 daily.
Between 2011 (when the oldest Baby Boomer reached age 65) and 2029 (when the youngest Boomer turns age 65), roughly 3.8 million Boomers are expected to turn 65 each year, or about 10,000 daily.
These projections are based on information about prevailing wages and the number of international migrants in each country.
The decline in remittances is projected to hit all regions of the world, as many of the 272 million international migrants lose their jobs and stop sending money home.
And in 2016, remittances fell 1%, driven by weak growth in many countries and declining oil prices.
It is not unusual for worldwide remittances from migrants to ebb and flow with economic circumstances in sending countries.
Remittances can also increase during hard times in migrants’ home countries.
This decline, from a high of $714 billion in 2019 to an estimated $572 billion in 2020, comes as the world’s largest remittance-sending nations have experienced especially stringent lockdowns, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the World Bank, Oxford University and Google.
Remittances to European and Central Asian countries the World Bank defines as low and middle income are projected to decline by 28%, while slightly smaller declines are expected for low- and middle-income nations in sub-Saharan Africa (23%), South Asia (22%), Latin America and the Caribbean (19%), and the Middle East and North Africa (20%), according to the World Bank.
With many nations under stay-at-home orders and work restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis, remittances – money sent by migrants to their home countries – are projected to fall by a record 20% this year.
For example, remittances to Yemen more than doubled between 2011 and 2019 amid a civil war in that country.
In 2009, during the Great Recession, global remittances declined 5% as economies shrank.
Ratings of the media were highest in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, where medians of 82% and 74%, respectively, said that the media were doing well at covering the most important news stories.
Most people say news organizations in their country are doing well at reporting on the most important news events, according to a 2017 survey of 38 countries.
This pattern appeared in seven of eight Western European countries surveyed by Pew Research Center in 2017 (the exception was Spain).
Majorities in Greece and South Korea said the media were not doing well at covering the most important stories.
Ratings of the news media were measured, however: Across the nations surveyed, a median of just 26% said the news media were doing very well at reporting on the most important news events.
The left-right difference on this question was only 8 points.
The differences in views between populists and non-populists were even more pronounced than the differences between those who place themselves on the ideological left and right.
In the Netherlands, for example, populists were 20 points less likely than non-populists to say the news media are very important to the functioning of society (35% vs. 55%).
Western Europeans with populist views are less likely than non-populists to say the news media are very important to the functioning of their country’s society.