In the next 25 years, the U.S. population is expected to include 82 million Americans over the age of 65, the vast majority of whom will require some type of long-term care as they age. Policymakers, health care systems, and families are all facing the question of how to provide […] Read more »
How Do Americans Really Feel About Vacation Days?
Does time off make Americans anxious? We can confirm only this: whatever it is we happen to be doing, most of us would rather be working. Or so it seems. CONT. Vanity Fair Read more »
Parents’ vaccines views shifting
Outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in 2014 and early in 2015 have sparked national conversations about the benefits and risks of childhood vaccination. … In May 2015, we asked parents across the U.S. for their opinions about the benefits and safety of vaccines, compared with one year ago. Parents […] Read more »
UT/TT Poll: Texans Divided on Gay Marriage
Texas voters are split on whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry and on whether businesses should be required to provide services to them, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. CONT. Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune Read more »
Attaining Adulthood
One of the deep, long-term changes in American lives has been what social historians call the “standardization” of the life course. From the 19th into the 20th century, increasingly more young Americans were able to follow a common sequence: get educated, get a job, leave parents’ home, get married, have […] Read more »
What do women really want in the workplace?
Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), as part of its principal Dollars and Sense Economics and Women at Work projects, commissioned Evolving Strategies (ES) to conduct a national Causal Conjoint Optimization (C2O) experiment to determine American women’s preferences in the workplace: What really matters to women – mothers and non-mothers, and those […] Read more »