Fall 2018
The question has been a staple of American religious attitude surveys since Gallup first asked it in 1944. With some 95 percent of Americans answering “yes” over the next five decades, George Gallup Jr., then head of Gallup Inc., opined in 1996 that “so many people in this country say they believe in the basic concept of God that it almost seems unnecessary to conduct poll questions” on the topic.
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Melinda Henneberger recalls recently visiting old friends at The Dallas Morning News, where she had worked from 1984 to 1989, and being startled to see a large section of the newsroom unoccupied. “It was just so quiet,” she says. Henneberger, of course, knew why: Newspaper readership, and newspaper revenue, had been declining everywhere. The Morning News, which had already seen its rival the Dallas Times-Herald cease publication as readers spurned afternoon papers a generation ago, was responding like the others, with layoffs and downsizing.
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Having a drink with a friend one warm evening after work in Philadelphia, Michelle Wisnieski, 28, rolls her eyes when asked about the stereotypes surrounding her generation.
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While a Kansas state senator, Greg Smith (R) championed a 2016 law that prioritizes out-of-home placements and intensive system responses for the highest-risk juveniles—and shifts resources toward evidence-based alternatives that allow youth to be supervised safely at home. Now a deputy sheriff in Johnson County, Smith chairs the Kansas Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee, which monitors implementation of the law. He serves as a distinguished adviser to Pew and is president of the Kelsey Smith Foundation, which he launched with his wife, Missey, in honor of their daughter, who was abducted and murdered in 2007.
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What traits does society value most in men and women—and which ones are discouraged? Last year, the Pew Research Center asked 4,573 Americans these questions, and respondents answered with more than 1,500 unique words.
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