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	<title>Pew Social &#38; Demographic Trends &#187; Economic Recession</title>
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		<title>A Rise in Wealth for the Wealthy; Declines for the Lower 93%</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/04/23/a-rise-in-wealth-for-the-wealthydeclines-for-the-lower-93/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fry  and Paul Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper 7% of the wealth distribution rose by an estimated 28%, while the mean net worth of households in the lower 93% dropped by 4%, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released Census [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Adults After the Recession: Fewer Homes, Fewer Cars, Less Debt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Fry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview After running up record debt-to-income ratios during the bubble economy of the 2000s, young adults shed substantially more debt than older adults did during the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath—mainly by virtue of owning fewer houses and cars, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Federal Reserve Board and other government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recovery No Better than the Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/09/12/a-recovery-no-better-than-the-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The median income of American households decreased by as much in the two years after the official end of the Great Recession as it did during the recession itself. The latest estimates from the Census Bureau show that the median income for U.S. households in 2011 was $50,054.1 In 2009, the year the Great Recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans Feel No Better or Worse Off in the Obama Years; Politics Colors Views of Recession’s Toll</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/09/06/americans-feel-no-better-or-worse-off-in-the-obama-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans do not rate their personal finances any better –or worse – than they did when Barack Obama took office nearly four years ago. And while income is a major factor in people’s views of their personal finances, so too is their partisan affiliation. The Pew Research Center has been tracking personal financial well-being for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Decade of the Middle Class</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pew Social Trends Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 1: Overview As the 2012 presidential candidates prepare their closing arguments to America’s middle class, they are courting a group that has endured a lost decade for economic well-being. Since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some—but by no means all—of its characteristic faith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divorce and the Great Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/05/02/divorce-and-the-great-recession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D’Vera Cohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[All Things Census]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the Population Association of America’s annual conference in San Francisco this week, papers on the recession’s impact on families, wealth, children, young adults, older Americans and other realms of life will be presented in at least 10 of the 200-plus sessions. Much of the research is preliminary, but it raises intriguing questions. One paper tries to assess whether the poor economy has affected divorce rates.]]></description>
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		<title>The Demographics of the Jobs Recovery</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/03/21/the-demographics-of-the-jobs-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rakesh Kochhar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hispanics and Asians are gaining jobs at a faster rate in the economic recovery than are blacks and whites, immigrants are outpacing the native born, and men are faring better than women.]]></description>
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		<title>The Boomerang Generation</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/03/15/the-boomerang-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim Parker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s supposed to be a stigma attached to living with mom and dad through one’s late twenties or early thirties, today’s “boomerang generation” didn’t get that memo. ]]></description>
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		<title>In a Down Economy, Fewer Births</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/12/in-a-down-economy-fewer-births/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/12/in-a-down-economy-fewer-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen Livingston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sharp decline in fertility rates in the United States that started in 2008 is closely linked to the souring of the economy that began about the same time, according to a new analysis of multiple economic and demographic data sources.]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-generational Living During Hard Times</title>
		<link>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/03/the-economics-of-multi-generational-living-during-hard-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/10/03/the-economics-of-multi-generational-living-during-hard-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D’Vera Cohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new Pew Research Center report explores the demographics and economics of multi-generational households. It concludes that moving to a multi-generational household appears to lift Americans out of poverty, and this is especially true for groups most affected by the recession. Household incomes also are higher for some groups in multi-generational households.]]></description>
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