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Pew: Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married – A Record Low

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Pew Research Center: Barely Half of U.S. Adults Are Married – A Record Low, New Marriages Down 5% from 2009 to 2010, by D’Vera Cohn, Jeffrey Passel and Wendy Wang

  • “In 1960, 72% of all adults ages 18 and older were married; today just 51% are. If current trends continue, the share of adults who are currently married will drop to below half within a few years. Other adult living arrangements—including cohabitation, single-person households and single parenthood—have all grown more prevalent in recent decades.
    The Pew Research analysis also finds that the number of new marriages in the U.S. declined by 5% between 2009 and 2010, a sharp one-year drop that may or may not be related to the sour economy. The United States is by no means the only nation where marriage has been losing “market share” for the past half century. The same trend has taken hold in most other advanced post-industrial societies, and these long-term declines appear to be largely unrelated to the business cycle. The declines have persisted through good economic times and bad.”

    • Census Bureau Reports State Government Revenue Up 79 Percent in 2010

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    News release: “Total state government revenue increased to $2.0 trillion in 2010, up 79.0 percent from $1.1 trillion in 2009, resulting mainly from large increases in social insurance trust revenue, according to the latest findings from the U.S. Census Bureau. After a substantial loss in earnings in 2009, trust systems showed earnings of $450.5 billion… Continue Reading

    New GAO Reports: Motor Carrier Safety, Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Comparison, NIH Recovery Act Grantees

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    Broadcasting Board of Governors Should Provide Additional Information to Congress Regarding Broadcasting to Cuba, GAO-12-243R, Dec 13, 2011 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Grants Management, GAO-12-158, Dec 13, 2011 Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Comparison of Implementation and Early Enrollment with the Children’s Health Insurance Program, GAO-12-62R, Nov 10, 2011 Retirement… Continue Reading

    TIME's Person of the Year – The Protestor

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    The Protester, by Kurt Andersen: “It’s remarkable how much the protest vanguards share. Everywhere they are disproportionately young, middle class and educated. Almost all the protests this year began as independent affairs, without much encouragement from or endorsement by existing political parties or opposition bigwigs. All over the world, the protesters of 2011 share a… Continue Reading

    National Center for Education Statistics – Academic Libraries: 2010 First Look

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    “The Academic Libraries: 2010 First Look summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.” “This report presents tabulations for the 2010 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES),… Continue Reading

    Kaiser Foundation – Illustrating Health Reform: How Health Insurance Coverage Will Work

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    Illustrating Health Reform: How Health Insurance Coverage Will Work – “Click on the YouToon characters and Main Street businesses to view their illustrative profiles and learn how the Affordable Care Act will affect their coverage. Access downloads, additional resources and video explainers. View Health Reform Hits Main Street to learn more about the problems with… Continue Reading

    CBO Cost Estimate – H.R. 1905 Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011

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    H.R. 1905 – Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 “H.R. 1905 would amend and expand existing sanctions against Iran. CBO estimates that implementing the bill would have a discretionary cost of $128 million over the 2012-2016 period, assuming appropriation of the necessary amounts. In addition, enacting the bill would increase revenues by $57 million over… Continue Reading

    Census – Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 2006–2010

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    Areas With Concentrated Poverty: 2006–2010, American Community Survey Briefs, December 2011 “People living in poverty tend to be clustered in certain neighborhoods rather than being evenly distributed across geographic areas. Measuring this concentration of poverty is important because researchers have found that living in areas with many other poor people places burdens on low-income families… Continue Reading

    Lifeline for Families, Support for the Economy – The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

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    Lifeline for Families, Support for the Economy – The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, November 22, 2011 “Millions of Americans remain unemployed in the aftermath of the Great Recession and wage growth has lagged behind inflation, straining the budgets of millions more. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, provides critical support… Continue Reading