Division Over Gun Control
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.
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Pay for Online Content
Nearly two thirds of internet users have paid to download or access some kind of online content, ranging from music to games to news articles.
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Pocket-Sized Politics
About a quarter of Americans used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.
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Boomers and Social Change
Members of the Baby Boom generation align more closely with younger generations than with older ones on most social issues.
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Boomer Gloom
Fully 80% of Baby Boomers say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
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Déjà Vu: Deficit Concerns
More than three-fourths of Americans saw the federal budget deficit as a threat to the recovering economy … in 1983. Then, as now, there was far less agreement about what to do about it.
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Global Social Networking
Along with the U.S., three other nations surveyed have at least four-in-ten adults on social networks: Poland, Britain and South Korea.
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Technology Use Around the World in 2010
Looking across 16 countries for which trends are available, the median percentage of people who own a cell phone has risen from 45% in 2002 to 81% in 2010.
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Married Twenty-Somethings
Only about a quarter of young adults were married in 2008. This compared with about two-thirds in 1960.
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The Class-Based Marriage Gap
In 2008, a 16-percentage-point gap separated marriage rates of college graduates (64%) and of those with a high school diploma or less (48%).