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Do you wish you were part of the 1 percent? You might want to consider moving to the Northeast. (more)

If tech experts are right, the use of cash and credit cards will have mostly fallen out of use by the end of the decade. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — The goody-two-shoes among us say it’s better to give than to receive. That’s not true for the average Facebook user, though. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tensions between the rich and poor are increasing and at their most intense level in nearly a quarter-century, a new survey shows. Americans now see more social conflict over wealth inequality than over the hot-button topics of immigration, race relations and age. (more)

The Democrats’ newest ideological label — “progressive” — has a 67 percent approval among Americans, far higher than the recognized and rejected “socialist” and “liberal” labels, says a new poll released by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. (more)

Dustin Hoffman’s graduate is rooting for Mitt Romney. Woodstock’s attendees are donating to the Republican National Committee. Haight Ashbury’s residents are complaining about big government. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Although tablet owners spend more time consuming news than poking around on Facebook, they’re reluctant to pay for news content. (more)

President Barack Obama’s back-to-school speech on Wednesday combined traditional exhortations to students with a campaign-trail promise of extensive government aid, but three new surveys clearly show that swing-voters’ trust in such promises has declined sharply since Obama took office. (more)

Republicans appear to be unenthusiastic about the Republican presidential candidates in the race for the White House or considering a run, according to a new Washington Post/Pew Research Center poll.  (more)

So much for a Merry Christmas. If conversations with co-workers, friends and family were not confirmation enough, a new poll found that Americans think the situation in the country sucks right now. (more)

Young adults, African-Americans, Latinos, and urbanites are more active tweeters than the average Twitter user, according to a study released Thursday. (more)

Marriage is increasingly optional and could be on its way to obsolescence,according to a survey of more than 2,600 Americans that examines changing attitudes about relationships today. (more)

In 2008, millennial voters – those individuals between the ages of 18 and 29 – played a key role in then-candidate Barack Obama’s historic victory. While young voters came out in record numbers in 2008, the 2010 midterms were starkly different. Poll numbers appear to show what some call a general skepticism and lack of enthusiasm among young voters – a result that may have had a profound impact on midterm election results. (more)

With the midterm elections fast approaching and Democrats facing major losses, President Barack Obama this week is going back to the young voters he brought out in record numbers in 2008. (more)

White women with college degrees are now just as likely to get married as their less-educated counterparts, ending what researchers once thought of as a “marriage penalty” for generations of young women who sought out higher education. (more)

Two years ago Edward Dooley called himself a “Kennedy-worshiping, stereotypical Massachusetts liberal.” (more)

A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: Apple commands an inordinate amount of the media’s attention. (more)

The political pendulum has swung far toward the Republicans, and at this point there is almost nothing that Democrats and the president can do to alter the overall course of the midterm elections. Republicans will win the House — and quite possibly the Senate — on November 2nd. Democrats had a politically devastating summer that is now stretching into the fall. Politicos talk about campaigns “winning” the day or the week; well, Democrats have “lost” the last seven months. (more)

The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama. (more)

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama. (more)