News tagged with demographic group
Dollars and sense: Why are some people morally against tax?
As the U.S. presidential election campaigns heat up, the economic debate is dominated by bailouts, austerity and, inevitably, taxation. Now a new study published in Symbolic Interaction asks why tax is such an important issue ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 23, 2012 |
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Slaves or not, Babylonians were like us, says book
(PhysOrg.com) -- They got married, had children, made beer. Although they lived 3,500 years ago in Nippur, Babylonia, in many ways they seem like us. Whether they were also slaves is a hotly contested question ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Web an increasing tool to link campaigns, voters
(AP) -- As potential voters in New Hampshire and Iowa scan the Internet, they probably are seeing ads for Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama alongside deals for shoes and holiday gifts.
Dec 04, 2011 |
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New report shows seniors' economic security falling
Outliving one's resources and falling into poverty is an increasingly common experience among today's senior citizens, according to a new report produced jointly by the Heller School's Institute on Assets and Social Policy ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 19, 2011 |
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Facebook friends? Group identity helps consumers remember ads
When consumers think about the groups they belong to, they recall ads better, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Most new training programs are failing to widen diversity in medicine
Most new training programmes designed to widen access to medicine in the UK are failing to increase the diversity of the medical student population, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
Feb 23, 2011 |
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The Scientist's Life Science Salary Survey 2010 -- results announced
This year's Salary Survey saw drops in salaries across the board with almost every speciality suffering a setback, some with dips as large as $20,000 (ecology) and $28,000 (virology).
Nov 02, 2010 |
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Population segments differ on perceptions of cognitive health
A new special issue of The Gerontologist has identified for the first time how ethnically, culturally, linguistically, and geographically diverse groups think about aging and brain health.
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Triple threat to health: Lifelong abuse creates serious consequences for older African-American women
Older African American women who have experienced high levels of family violence throughout their lives are more likely to suffer worse physical and mental health than their counterparts, found a Temple researcher in the ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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