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Trendline Digest explores cultural, economic and social trends in American life. My goal is to provide some context for what’s going in American public life.

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My background includes work as a reporter and editorial writer for two small-town newspapers, a research analyst for an insurance company, a survey coordinator the the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, and most recently, I was a research scientist/demographer for the Wisconsin Department of Health. In my early years I flipped burgers in Fargo, North Dakota, stripped herring at a processing plant in King Salmon, Alaska and worked as a child care worker in DeKalb, Illinois. My formal education includes a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Sociology.

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