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Recent stats on poverty, divorce, and perceptions of Islam.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 1/26/2005 12:00AM

14%	35%	42%
Average increase in requests for emergency food assistance in 25 U.S. cities from 2003 to 2004.	Americans who have divorced.	Americans of low personal religiosity who perceive Islam as violent.
8%	34%	65%
Improvement in the U.S. employment rate from November 2003 to November 2004.	Married born-again adults who divorced after they became Christians.	Americans of high personal religiosity who perceive Islam as violent.

Sources: U.S. Conference of Mayors-Sodexho USA Hunger and Homelessness Survey; Bureau of Labor Statistics; The Barna Group; Media and Society Research Group, Cornell University

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Sources: U.S. Conference of Mayors—Sodexho USA Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2004, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barna, Media and Society Research Group, Cornell University.

February 2005, Vol. 49, No. 2

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