11/07Portion of whites and African Americans, respectively, who say that immigrants take American jobs: 1/4, 1/3

Pew Research Center (Washington)

10/95Change since 1979 in the median earnings of an American woman with a full-time job, in constant dollars: +$1,925

U.S. Census Bureau (Temple Hills, Md.)

    Change in the median earnings of an American man with a full-time job: -$2,816

U.S. Census Bureau (Temple Hills, Md.)

9/90Change, since 1972, in the percentage of employed American men who have an employer-financed pension plan: -5

Social Security Administration (Baltimore)

    Change in the percentage of employed American women who do: +5

Social Security Administration (Baltimore)

2/92Percentage of all employed black American men with a college degree who earned poverty-level wages in 1979: 9.5

Urban Institute (Washington)

    Percentage today: 14.8

Urban Institute (Washington)

10/93Chances that a US. resident is foreign-born: 1 in 13

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)

    Chances in 1910: 1 in 7

U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.)