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Changes in Attitudes
February 3, 2009
All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant when the intention of life becomes love.
-Jalal Rumi, poet
Jimmy Buffet sang about "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," and recently Newsweek (January 26, 2009) chronicled changes that have occurred in America of late. Here are some of the trends they presented....

Children Living with two parents...
  • In 1968 = 85%
  • In 2006 = 67%
Children, 6 - 11, overweight...
  • In 1971 = 4%
  • In 2003 = 19%
Percent of labor force in services sector...
  • In 1960 = 58%
  • In 2007 = 77%
Ratio of workers to social security beneficiaries...
  • In 1950 = 16.5:1
  • In 2050 = 2:1
Portion of U.S. population Hispanic...
  • In 1960 = 3%
  • In 2005 = 14%
  • In 2050 = 31%
Agree that "immigration is a good thing for our country"...
  • In 1993 = 29%
  • In 2009 = 44%
Approve of "marriages between blacks and whites"...
  • In 1997 = 63%
  • In 2009 = 80%



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Comments (1)

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R Kinkead · February 03, 2009
United States


Readers know that statistics and surveys can be designed to serve any agenda, including NEWSWEEK's. If the population surveyed was a sample of five hundred living and working within a five-block radius of NEWSWEEK's HQ in Washington, DC, one would naturally expect these results. Take the same survey of five hundred within a five block radius of, say, the SATURN plant in Tennessee, and the results would be quite different.



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