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    ’Staunch Conservatives’ Are Wary of Wall Street

    Nearly three years after the financial crisis that sent the nation’s economy into a tailspin, the public expresses mixed views of Wall Street. Nearly half of Americans (47%) say that Wall Street hurts the U.S. economy more than it helps, while 38% say it helps more than hurts; 15% offer no opinion. These findings, from […]

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    A Demographic Portrait of Puerto Ricans

    The 2010 U.S. Census counted 3.7 million Hispanics living in Puerto Rico. This was down from 3.8 million in 2000. By contrast, in the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, the population of Puerto Rican-origin Hispanics increased from 3.4 million in 2000 to 4.6 million in 2010, surpassing Puerto Rico’s Hispanic population.

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    About the News Interest Index

    The News Interest Index is a weekly survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press aimed at gauging the public’s interest in and reaction to major news events. This project has been undertaken in conjunction with the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage Index, an ongoing content analysis of […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted May 2, 2011 among a national sample of 654 adults 18 years of age or older living in the United States (555 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 99 were interviewed on a cell phone and had no landline telephone). The survey […]

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    About the Survey

    The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted May 2, 2011 among a national sample of 654 adults 18 years of age or older living in the United States (555 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 99 were interviewed on a cell phone and had no landline telephone). The survey […]

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    Tea Party’s Hard Line on Spending Divides GOP

    Across a wide range of issues — including entitlements, education, agriculture and energy — Tea Party Republicans take a much harder line on cutting federal spending than do non-Tea Party Republicans, who are far more in sync with Democrats.

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    Health Topics

    Eight in ten adult internet users look for information online. Again, 80% of internet users have looked online for information about at least one of the following topics:[11.numoffset=”11″ “Health Topics” (2011). See: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2011/HealthTopics.aspx] Internet access drives information access. Since one-quarter of U.S. adults do not go online, the percentage of health information seekers is lower […]

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    Section 3: Views of the Political Parties

    The Republican Party now leads the Democrats by 12 points as the party better able to reduce the federal budget deficit: 46% say the GOP could do better compared with 34% who prefer the Democrats. A year ago, the two parties were rated about evenly on reducing the deficit (38% Republicans, 35% Democrats). On most […]

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    Is College Worth It?

    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.