Rating the Current Economy
Just 11% of the public rates the economy as excellent or good, down from 17% in early February, and 26% in January.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Just 11% of the public rates the economy as excellent or good, down from 17% in early February, and 26% in January.
While the Clinton-Obama face-off in today’s Pennsylvania primary has claimed the bulk of media coverage, far more Americans — 36% — say the news they have been hearing about GOP presidential candidate John McCain is generally positive than say that about either of the two Democratic candidates.
Catholics are the largest religious community in Pennsylvania, making up 29% of the state’s adult population, followed by mainline Protestants at 25% and evangelical Protestants at 18%. White Catholics have been a pillar of Hillary Clinton’s voter coalition in her big-state victories to date.
That’s the percentage of adults in this country who agree that immigrants work harder than blacks at low-paying jobs, compared with 30% who disagree.
Muslim Americans are fairly traditional in their religious beliefs, with 86% saying that the Koran is “the word of God.”
Eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say they consider not reporting all income on one’s tax returns to be morally wrong, while just 5% consider it morally acceptable and 14% say it’s not a moral issue.
More than a third of online adults (36%) have used a search engine to find information about famous or notable people.
One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).
More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion — or no religion at all.
If current trends continue, 82% of the projected 142 million people who will be added to the U.S. population by 2050 will be immigrants arriving between 2005 and 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants.
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