The Marrying — and Divorcing — Kind
Compared with most other western nations, the U.S. has one of the highest marriage rates as well as one of the highest divorce rates.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Compared with most other western nations, the U.S. has one of the highest marriage rates as well as one of the highest divorce rates.
More than seven-in-ten regular “Colbert Report” watchers say they prefer news delivered by sources with no apparent point of view.
Nine-in-ten regular Sean Hannity viewers say they see a lot of bias in news coverage.
More than half of online adults use Wikipedia — which celebrates its 10th anniversary this Saturday — to look for information.
A majority of Americans (57%) say the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend.
By a margin of 52%-33%, Americans think the U.S. should re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.
A summer 2010 survey found the public split, but in favor of gun control over the right to own guns by a 50%-to-46% margin.
Nearly four-in-ten survey respondents say that marriage has become obsolete as an institution in American life.
Seven-in-ten say the trend toward more single women having children is bad for society, and 61% say that a child needs both a mother and father to grow up happily.
Two thirds of Republicans say the country is losing ground on the way the health care system is working, up from 41% in December 2008.
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