Just 11% of the public rates the economy as excellent or good, down from 17% in early February, and 26% in January.

Slightly more than one-in-ten adult internet users say they have used a search engine to find information about someone they are thinking about hiring or working with.

Nearly one-in-three (31%) US adults with less than a high school education are members of evangelical Protestant churches.

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.

Muslim Americans are fairly traditional in their religious beliefs, with 86% saying that the Koran is “the word of God.”

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.

Republican dissatisfaction with the country’s overall direction has risen significantly in recent months with a solid 56% majority of Republicans now saying they are dissatisfied with the nation’s course, and only 40% expressing satisfaction.

Nearly half of Americans now say that rising prices are their top personal economic concern; just 19% cite the job situation.

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.