Pew Research Center Staff

A little more than a third of Americans (35%) say that the increasing number of gay couples raising children is a bad thing for society, down from 50% in 2007.

Three-quarters of the public say most people cannot afford to pay for a college education.

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.

Among adults who took out loans to help pay for college, nearly half say paying back those loans makes it harder for them to pay their other bills.

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.

Google Search and Google News are the biggest single drivers of traffic to top news websites.

A 58%-majority of college presidents say public high school students arrive at college less well prepared than their counterparts of a decade ago.

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

By a 48%-to-38% margin, more Americans say states’ rights rather than slavery was the main cause of the Civil War.

Just one-in-ten Americans have a positive reaction when they see the Confederate flag displayed.