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    Libraries Solve Problems

    This presentation focuses on the Project’s findings about the role of libraries when Americans are trying to solve problems.

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    Team China

    Another example of how Chinese newspapers, websites, and internet users react in harmony and rally on many issues: “People ‘sign up’ to slam media bias.”

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    Say Tax Cheating is Wrong

    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.

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    Unhappy Tax Day

    IRSNearly half (48%) of Americans, many of whom will be struggling to meet today’s deadline for filing with the IRS, say they think the tax system is either completely (19%) or mostly (29%) unfair to people like them, slightly fewer than said so in 2002.

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    Celebrity Chasing Online

    More than a third of online adults (36%) have used a search engine to find information about famous or notable people.

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    God Gap

    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%).

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    Losing My Religion

    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.

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    Immigrant’s Contribution to US Population Growth

    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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    Inflation Top Concern

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

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    Republicans Dissatisfied with Country’s Direction

    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.