With Father’s Day approaching, it’s a good time to look at how the role of fatherhood is changing, and how dads are becoming more active in maintaining the home and…
The forecast about the U.S. becoming a “majority-minority”—where minority groups account for more than half of the population—is becoming a reality. For the first time ever, the number of minority births…
Young adults are no longer simply digital natives, but mobile natives as well. Their rapid adoption of smartphones is changing both how they access data and how they manage their…
Last month, while on a business trip in Mumbai, India, I found a few spare hours between meetings to explore the city. I do this as often as I can…
This is the second of a multi-part series on changes in China. Read part one here. In most countries, there is increasing speculation about the extent that e-commerce and e-shopping will…
College graduation season is upon us. When the commencement speeches end and the mortarboards fly into the air, it’s time for college graduates to make some life decisions—like where to…
By now, most marketers know the numbers when it comes to Hispanic growth in America. The segment is 52 million strong and will likely represent the majority of population growth…
The massive wave of Latin American immigration in the 1990s and 2000s has forever changed the tapestry of America. But the foreign born population represents a wider swath than just…
President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage has brought the debate about gay marriage front and center. How many married same-sex couples are there in the U.S. today? The Census Bureau…
This is the first of a multi-part series on changes in China. It is hard to imagine that a U.S.-style Census could be routinely conducted in a nation as vast as…
As results from the 2010 U.S. Census reveal, the American landscape has changed significantly. The shifts related to race, age, gender, ethnicity, geography, income and other key demographics are profoundly…
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