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What’s normal and what isn’t on Election Day and beyond

Federal intervention, underserved voters, AI, how to approach voters at the polls and more from our webinar on covering the U ...
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Research shows spike in youth suicide attempts, depression after the COVID-19 pandemic began

The number of times children and adolescents came to hospital emergency rooms after attempting suicide jumped 22% across 18 countries, including the U.S., during the first two years of the COVID-19 ...
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Can universal background checks curb gun violence? Here’s what the research says.

Recent mass shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Uvalde, Texas; and Buffalo, New York are just three of the 233 mass shootings in the U.S. this year — down slightly from 240 mass shootings at this time last ...
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Reporting on violence and threats against US election workers: 6 things to know

Threats against poll workers made national news following false claims from former President Donald Trump and supporters that Joe Biden had fraudulently won the 2020 presidential election. For example ...
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The growing role of health care settings in voter registration: A research roundup

Dr. Alister Martin’s first encounter with voter registration in a health care setting happened in 2017, when he was a third-year emergency medicine resident at Boston Children’s Hospital. A patient ...
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Need US government data? Get to know TRAC at Syracuse University

Update: As reported by Matt Zdun of The Houston Chronicle on Feb. 3, 2025, the TRAC website is no longer available on the Syracuse University website. The immigration databases have been moved to a ...
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The influence of elites, interest groups and average voters on American politics

Public policy in the United States is shaped by a wide variety of forces, from polls and election results to interest groups and institutions, both formal and informal. In addition to political ...
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6 Election Day reporting do’s and don’ts

Election Day has arrived, but the work of journalists covering the 2024 U.S. election is not over. Reporting on election night results may be the most pivotal task of the entire campaign season. This ...
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The many barriers young adults must overcome to vote: A research-based reporting guide

From fast-moving international migration trends to reporting on aging populations, check out the highlights from our webinar on demographic changes in the U.S.
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Clark Merrefield

Economic uncertainty, windfalls for oil producers, how businesses communicate with the president and artificial intelligence — check out the insights from our webinar with EconoFact.
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When and why minority legislators matter

2014 study in the Annual Review of Political Science assessing whether officeholders of racial or ethnic minorities better represents the interests of constituents from those minorities. But how ...
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Tip Sheets

The federal watchdog for consumer financial products has been stripped of its enforcement capabilities, but the data — including consumer complaint narratives — remains robust. Know Your ResearchTip ...