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Affirmative action programs remain one of the more controversial social policies in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that race can be a factor in college admissions, as long as it is not the overriding factor. As a whole, the ...

Financial considerations aside, access to a college education depends on an intricate combination of factors including grades, college entrance test scores, class rank, course of study, quality of the high school attended, and extracurricular ...

Gallup World Poll data suggest that Russians' insecurity regarding their personal safety runs deep -- and many feel unsafe in their day-to-day lives. Just 27% of Russians feel safe walking alone in their area at night, and only 25% have ...

Although women represent a majority of the population, they are still a minority in the U.S. workforce, and achieving equality there is an ongoing struggle. Gallup's annual Minority Rights and Relations poll assessed the public's views on job ...

A significant majority of blacks in America today say that if two equally qualified students, one white and one black, apply to a major college, the white student would have the better chance of being admitted to the college. About half of ...

Rampant corruption is one of the defining characteristics of post-Cold War Russia. Only 7% of Russians say they are satisfied with efforts to control crime and corruption in the country, and 75% say the level of corruption is higher now than it ...

Most Americans say black children have as good a chance as white children in their communities to get a good education. Thus, the need for the types of school-choice programs used around the country to improve classroom diversity may not seem ...

A recent Gallup poll underscores the different economic realities faced by whites and minorities in the United States. While a majority of whites think whites and racial minorities have equal job opportunities, only about one in six blacks and ...

For many Americans, June represents a time to plan summer vacations, to lounge by the pool, or to relax after a long school year. For some, though, especially the political junkies among us, it is most notable as the time when the U.S. Supreme ...

By ruling in favor of the University of Michigan last June, the Supreme Court upheld the right of colleges and universities to consider race as a factor in the admissions process. Two months later, a slight majority of American teens said they ...