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demographic trends stories: 9 news summaries

Addicted to Facebook? You're Likely Urban and Affluent

MySpace users tend to be poorer

Sep 29, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Facebook and Twitter users are more likely to be urban and affluent than the rest of the US population, according to a new Nielsen study, while MySpace aficionados tend to have lower incomes. People in the top third of the income bracket are 25% more likely to use Facebook than... More »

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social networking • MySpace • Facebook • Nielsen • Twitter • demographic trends • affluent

Young Adults Biggest Fans
of Health Care Reform 

Also top supporters of public option: survey

Sep 2, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Making up 30% of the uninsured population, young adults are the biggest supporters of health reform and the public option, a poll finds—but they're also among the quietest. Only 53% of working young adults qualify for employer-based insurance, and they usually can’t afford to take out their own... More »

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health insurance • young adult • health care reform • uninsured • survey • demographic trends • supporters • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

Live With It:
Retirement
Must Shrink

Longer lifespans, older population mean quitting age has to rise

Jun 26, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - With people living longer and having fewer children in developed countries, the population is aging even as the workforce shrinks. And with retirement ages in the 60s, retirees are living longer on pensions. Those demographic shifts make a policy shift inevitable: we’re all going to have to work longer,... More »

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baby boomer • elderly • Japan • work • retirement • retirees • aging • baby boom • Hitachi • demographic trends

ANALYSIS

 Baby Boomers Will 
 Start Next Biz Craze 


Jun 20, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The baby boomers may be pushing 60, but they're primed to lead another "entrepreneurship boom" in America, Dane Stangler writes in the American. After all, according to one study, it's the close-to-retirement-age crowd—not 20-something whippersnappers—that has led US entrepreneurial activity since it last picked up... More »

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entrepreneurs • aging • recession • population • startup • demographic trends • job tenure

(Newser) - Nashville really is Music City, Richard Florida writes in the Atlantic. Charting the demographics of the music industry from 1970 to 2004, Florida found that “Nashville was the only city that registered positive growth. In effect, it sucked up all the growth in the music industry.” It’s... More »

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music industry • Tennessee • publisher • Nashville • record label • demographic trends • Music City • recording studio

ANALYSIS

 Nate Silver: 
 Win the Cities, 
 Win America 

Fast-growing urban demographic handed Obama election victory

Jan 15, 09 8:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama's strength in cities won him the election, meaning he "might be America's first urban" president, statistics whiz Nate Silver writes in Esquire. Obama's "pragmatic, superior, hip, stubborn, multicultural" ways make him unmistakably urban, Silver writes, and America's changing demographics mean that urban voters matter now more... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • demographics • cities • Election 2008 • demographic trends • President Obama

Analysis

 Watch Out World, 
 You're Going Gray 

Aging, population decline mark next decades

Jan 4, 09 11:38 AM CST
(Newser) - Wall Street's a wreck and terrorists are clamoring for WMDs, but the world's real crisis is far worse: It's getting old, Neil Howe and Richard Jackson write in the Washington Post. By the 2020s, baby boomers will push the median age in Western Europe and Japan to near 50,... More »

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United States • aging • youth • extremism • old age • developed countries • human population • seniors • demographic trends

Half of America's Population Growth Now Hispanic

Baby boom among '90s immigrants behind surge in Latino population

Oct 24, 08 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Hispanic baby boom accounts for more than half of America's population growth over the last decade, the Houston Chronicle reports. A survey found 50.5% of the growth in that period was among Hispanics, even though the group currently makes up just 15% of the population. The growth is... More »

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population • demographics • USA • Hispanic • Pew Hispanic Center • demographic trends

ANALYSIS

Men Tend
to Bail on
Election Day

Jail, work, apathy behind 40-year
voting dip

Oct 19, 08 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The percentage of men who vote has been falling for 40 years, and will likely continue to drop this year, Newsweek reports. Total voter turnout has been dropping since a record high in 1964, but men appear particularly hamstrung by gender-specific factors. More go to prison, fewer attend college, and... More »

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United States • voting • female voters • Election 2008 • male voters • demographic trends

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