Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email How the United States government measures levels of poverty has changed little since the bureaucracy began making official estimates in the 1960s. Many observers have…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The 2008 U.S. presidential primary period saw a great degree of polling controversy, crystallized by Hillary Clinton’s win in the New Hampshire primary despite polls…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner has in recent years filed stories from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Egypt and Bahrain, covering important aspects of the…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Conventional wisdom has maintained that a child growing up in a neighborhood with low household per capita incomes and elevated levels of violent crime and…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email As more states “front-load” their presidential primaries to ensure the relevance of their outcomes early in the primary cycle, the nominating process has become increasingly…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Iowa has seen significant demographic changes in the past decade as its Latino population has grown. How this trend intersects with voting patterns and political…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Scholars have long been in interested in describing precisely and theorizing what role campaign momentum — the use of a victory to push a lead…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Since 1972 the American presidential nominating process has begun in the state of Iowa. There are many conflicting opinions about whether or not this tradition…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email An individual’s capacity to learn is often treated as static across his or her lifetime. Studies that identify changes in IQ (a widely used, standardized…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email The Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Department of Justice have found that 11% of high school girls and 4% of high school boys…
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