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    The State of Online Video

    69% of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, with 18-29 year-olds leading the way. Comedy has supplanted news as the most viewed type of video online.

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    “Socialism” Not So Negative, “Capitalism” Not So Positive

    Overview “Socialism” is a negative for most Americans, but certainly not all Americans. “Capitalism” is regarded positively by a majority of the public, though it is a thin majority. There are certain segments of the public – notably, young people and Democrats – where both “isms” are rated about equally. And while most Americans have […]

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    Not Stimulated

    Six-in-ten Americans say the economic stimulus has not helped the job situation.

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    About the Survey

    The Congressional Connection Poll is a collaboration of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the National Journal, sponsored by (SHRM) the Society for Human Resource Management. The survey will be conducted weekly when Congress is in session, and each week’s survey will focus on themes and issues related to Congress […]

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    Beneficial Bailouts?

    Roughly half of Americans say TARP, federal loans to troubled banks, did not prevent a more severe financial crisis.

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    Public Reacts Positively To Extensive Gulf Coverage

    Summary of Findings While the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico has accounted for an overwhelming proportion of recent news coverage, most Americans say the press is giving the right amount of attention to the still-unfolding disaster. The latest News Interest Index survey conducted June 17-20 among 1,009 adults by the Pew Research Center […]

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    Gulf Oil Leak Dominates Public’s News Interests

    Summary of Findings As oil from an undersea well continued to flow into the Gulf of Mexico last week, Americans tracked the worsening environmental disaster much more closely than any other major news story. About half (49%) say this was the story they followed most closely. Press coverage was divided between the oil leak (17% […]

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    Modest Decline in Oil Leak Interest, Sharp Decline in Coverage

    Summary of Findings As the public continues to closely track news about the environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, few Americans say news organization are giving the oil leak too much coverage. The Gulf oil leak once again topped both public interest and media coverage last week, though the percent following the story […]

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    Section 5: Views of Federal Departments and Agencies

    Favorable ratings for most federal agencies and departments tested, in this study have declined substantially since the late 1990s. And job performance ratings for most federal agencies are lackluster: Of 15 agencies included in the survey, majorities give positive job performance ratings to only six. Nonetheless, most Americans (70%) think that the government is a […]

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    Part Three: Attitudes towards online government services

    How Americans view recent movements by government agencies towards citizen engagement on social media sites The preceding analysis has been devoted to examining what Americans do online, and how they interact with government using digital tools. In this section, we examine their views towards different online government services—which ones they find most important, and how […]