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By a large margin, most adults who rent would like to one day purchase a home (81%) rather than continue to rent (17%).
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By a large margin, most adults who rent would like to one day purchase a home (81%) rather than continue to rent (17%).
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Despite large changes in family structure and formation rates, the public maintains a strongly positive view about marriage and the family.
Nearly four-in-ten survey respondents say that marriage has become obsolete as an institution in American life.
While a majority of Americans believe that next year will be better than 2010, there was far more optimism at the beginning of the year.
Only about a third of Americans in a fall survey expected better economic conditions a year hence. By contrast, in the midst of the Great Depression, and with another downturn in the offing, half of Americans still expected general business conditions to improve over the next six months.
Fewer than half of Americans approve of Republican plans and policies in a post-election poll.
The public is split on Bush’s tax cuts, with roughly equal numbers calling for retention of all tax cuts (30%),total repeal (31%) or repeal of just cuts for the wealthy (27%).
Roughly half the public believes that in 40 years human beings will be cloned and an extinct animal will be brought back through cloning.
One-in-five American adults do not use the internet.
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