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short readsOct 2, 2012

Record Levels of Student Loan Debt Hit Younger Households Hard

A record 40% of all households headed by someone younger than age 35 owe money on their student loans, by far the highest share among any age group
reportSep 28, 2012

Youth Engagement Falls; Registration Also Declines

Young voters are significantly less engaged in this year’s election than at a comparable point in 2008 and now lag far behind older voters in interest in the campaign and intention to vote. The share of voters younger than 30 who are following campaign news very closely is roughly half what it was at this […]
reportSep 26, 2012

A Record One-in-Five Households Now Owe Student Loan Debt

About one out of five (19%) of the nation’s households owed student debt in 2010, more than double the share two decades earlier and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007. A record 40% of all households headed by someone younger than age 35 owed student debt in 2010.
presentationSep 15, 2012

Senior Citizens and Digital Technology

Lee Rainie will describe the Project’s research about those 65 and older use of technology
reportSep 11, 2012

Smartphone Ownership Update: September 2012

66% of those ages 18-29 own smartphones; 68% of those living in households earning $75,000 also own them
short readsSep 4, 2012

Millennials Tend to Identify with the Democratic Party

More than half of Millennials say they identify with or lean to the Democratic Party.
reportAug 14, 2012

Up to 1.7 Million Unauthorized Immigrant Youth May Benefit from New Deportation Rules

Up to 1.7 million unauthorized immigrants ages 30 and under who arrived in the U.S. as children are eligible for a new Obama administration program that would shield them from deportation and enable them to apply for temporary but renewable work permits, according to updated estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center.
reportAug 13, 2012

Older Americans Have Been Highly Resistant to Medicare Changes

Older Americans are wary of changes to Medicare. Compared with younger people, they are more positive about the way the program operates, less apt to think that changes are needed and far less disposed towards Paul Ryan’s proposal to reshape Medicare. A Pew Research survey in May of 2011 found that those 65 and older […]
reportJul 16, 2012

Young People and Political Engagement

The Pew Research’s Center’s Paul Taylor answers questions about young people’s involvement in politics.
short readsJul 11, 2012

Most Young Adults Know Peers Who Have Moved Back in with Parents

The Great Recession seems to have accelerated the tendency of today’s young adults – sometimes labeled the “boomerang generation” – to move out of the family house for a time and then boomerang back.