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...month-long study used results from the "Survey of Political Independents," a long-running national telephone-survey that interviewed 2,140 adults nationwide. Just under half of those interviewed identified themselves as independents; 542 people were Democrats and 462 were Republicans...
Parents at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School, one of two Cambridge primary schools that instituted an eight-hour class day last year, hold overwhelmingly positive opinions of the extra instruction time, according to a school survey...
...survey of parents at the King found that 87 percent of parents “feel that their children are achieving more academically” as a result of the longer days, and that 77 percent “felt the expanded day had a positive impact on their families’ lives...
Generation Y's search for meaning makes support for volunteering among the benefits it values most. More than half of workers in their 20s prefer employment at companies that provide volunteer opportunities, according to a recent Deloitte survey. The software company Salesforce.com gives 1% of profits to its foundation, which pays for employees to volunteer 1% of their work time. Salesforce.com staff will do 50,000 hours of community service this year. "This program has dramatically increased our ability to recruit and retain high-quality employees," says CEO Marc Benioff. It's what attracted Eliot Moore, 26. "When I heard...
Since launching two weeks ago more than 1,000 people have created profiles on the site. A brief survey of a few shows that most people still list religion and caste details as well as whether they are vegetarian or "non-veg" (as carnivores in India are known) and whether they have kids or not. Though some Indian commentators have suggested that divorcees are less worried than other Indians about religion and caste when searching for a mate, Pahwa says his gut feel is they may "care as much - maybe even more, especially if they've had a bad experience...