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A majority of adults ages 65 and older oppose changing Medicare into a program that would provide credits toward purchasing private health insurance.

Americans are split on the main purpose of college, with 47% saying it is to teach work-related skills and 39% saying it is to help a student grow personally and intellectually.

By a large margin, most adults who rent would like to one day purchase a home (81%) rather than continue to rent (17%).

The great majority of Brazilians say either that their nation is already one of the most powerful in the world (24%), or that it will eventually become so (53%).

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.