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American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population – A Report Based on the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 Principal Investigators – Barry A. Kosmin & Ariela Keysar with Ryan Cragun and Juhem Navarro-Rivera “One of the most widely noted findings from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS 2008), which was released in March …
News release: “Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has today sent the attached letter to the White House, notifying President Barack Obama of his retirement from the Supreme Court, effective one day after the Court rises for the summer recess this year. Justice Stevens has served on the Supreme Court for 34 years. He is 89 …
Monthly Budget Review, April 2010. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for February and the Daily Treasury Statements for March. “The federal government incurred a budget deficit of $714 billion in the first six months of fiscal year 2010, CBO estimates, about $67 billion less than the shortfall recorded in the same period last year. …
WSJ: Track the U.S. unemployment rate since 1948 via interactive graphic and accompanying article. Related postings on financial system
News release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is hosting a month-long online discussion to expand the conversation on acid rain. Acid rain is a serious environmental problem that affects large parts of the United States and is particularly damaging to lakes, streams, and forests and the plants and animals that live in these ecosystems. Sulfur …
“Recently Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and V.F. contributing editor Michael Lewis sat together onstage in front of an intimate crowd at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and discussed Lewiss new book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, which tackles the question of what caused the U.S. economy to tank. …
