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Rick Fry (Senior Research Associate, Pew Hispanic Center) in the New York Times: As Latinos Make Gains in Education, Gaps Remain
Get our most recent data on Hispanic college enrollment here.
In the past three presidential elections, very few Americans reported having problems or difficulties voting according to Pew Research Center surveys. In its Nov. 8-12 poll in 2012, just 4% of whites answered yes to the question: “Did you have any problems or difficulties voting this year, or not.” Only 2% of African-Americans responded affirmatively.
Four years earlier, the comparable figures were 3% for whites and 4% for blacks, and in 2004, 5% and 3% respectively.
The total immigrant population has continued to grow, while unauthorized immigration has declined slightly from its 2007 peak.
13% of internet users ages 18-29 use Tumblr.
Compare Tumblr user demographics to other social networking sites: http://pewrsr.ch/VBAYby
In his inaugural and State of the Union addresses, President Obama spoke of the need to deal with climate change in his second term, but the American public routinely ranks dealing with global warming low on its list of priorities for the president and Congress. This year, it ranks at the bottom of the 21 tested.
Where do immigrants to the United States come from? A new Pew report finds that this has been slowly changing over time.
Although a Pew Research Center survey found concern in European Union countries about rising prices, the European statistical agency said the EU’s annual inflation rate in April was 1.4%, down from a rate of 2.7% in April 2012.
The Religious Affiliation of U.S. Immigrants: Majority Christian, Rising Share of Other Faiths
Over the past 20 years, the United States has granted permanent residency status to an average of about 1 million immigrants each year. As the geographic origins of legal immigrants have gradually shifted, a smaller percentage come from Europe and the Americas than did so 20 years ago, and a growing share now come from Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. With that shift comes changes in the religious makeup of legal immigrants.
Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About the 2nd Generation
Children of immigrants are more likely to have graduated from college than the general population.
Is one or both of your parents an immigrant to the U.S.? Then you’re one of 20 million second generation U.S.-born Americans.
That means, statistically speaking, that you make more money and are more educated than your parents were at your age, you lean left politically, and you’re accepting of homosexuality and supportive of interracial marriage (according to a recent study by Pew.)
