Tag: Demographics
A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes...
Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, Colorado State University and Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley
Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race.
While 84%...
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...
23% of young black women now identify as bisexual
Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College
Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...
Why fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced
Tera R. Jordan, Iowa State University
Fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced, with the rates falling 18% between 2008 and 2016.
Among American adults, there...
Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline
David Swenson, Iowa State University
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people....
At work, women and people of color still have not broken...
Tesa Rigel Hines, Purdue University Northwest
Did you notice the race of your barista this morning? What about the sex of your mechanic?
I have observed...
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race...
Pet owners want to be masters, not servants – which is...
Colleen P. Kirk, New York Institute of Technology
Cat videos may rule the internet, but dogs possess mastery of their owners’ hearts – at least...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
