Few in LGBT community see pro sports as friendly
Just 4% of LGBT adults in the U.S. said that professional sports leagues are friendly toward LGBT people.
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Just 4% of LGBT adults in the U.S. said that professional sports leagues are friendly toward LGBT people.
Social science research offers a more complicated view of the relationship between being a parent and being happy.
This posting links to a FactTank article about American Community Survey data showing that the rate of new marriages rose in 2012 after declining for the previous three years. The rise is concentrated among certain groups.
Marriage is back – at least, a little bit, and with some caveats.
The income gap between couples with relatively high and those with relatively low levels of education had widened substantially since 1960, according to a new study.
Today about as many Americans identify themselves as lower or lower-middle class (40%) as say they are in the middle class (44%).
Fewer than half of Americans said their country made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the past half century.
This posting links to a FactTank article about how the demographics of poverty have changed in the U.S. since the launch of the War on Poverty 50 years ago.
The hourly pay gap between women and men has narrowed to 16 cents today, compared with 36 cents in 1980. But progress has slowed in recent years and even reversed for many women over the course of their careers.