Americans’ support for school cellphone bans has ticked up since last year
More than four-in-ten Americans (44%) back bans on student cellphone use during the entire school day, up from 36% last fall.
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More than four-in-ten Americans (44%) back bans on student cellphone use during the entire school day, up from 36% last fall.
More than three-fourths of Americans saw the federal budget deficit as a threat to the recovering economy … in 1983. Then, as now, there was far less agreement about what to do about it.
Fully 80% of Baby Boomers say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country today.
Members of the Baby Boom generation align more closely with younger generations than with older ones on most social issues.
About a quarter of Americans used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 midterm election campaign.
Nearly two thirds of internet users have paid to download or access some kind of online content, ranging from music to games to news articles.