Pew Research Center Staff

Most Americans (59%) say they would place a higher priority on spending more money to make health care more accessible and affordable than on reducing the budget deficit.

Six-in-ten Americans think it is a good idea for the government to regulate more strictly the way major financial companies do business.

Half of all smokers say they “frequently” experience stress, compared with 35% of former smokers and 31% of those who never smoked.

A quarter of current smokers say that they are very happy, compared with more than a third of quitters and almost four-in-ten non-smokers.

Free markets still have tepid support in Eastern Europe.

Only a quarter of Americans say they read a print version of a newspaper.

Four-in-ten suburban residents give their community high marks, a higher level of satisfaction than that found among residents of cities, rural areas and small towns.

Church attendance has remained unchanged during the economic downturn.

The period from 1999 to 2007 is the longest in modern U.S. economic history in which inflation-adjusted median household income failed to surpass an earlier peak.

About eight-in-ten American adults say they consider not reporting all income on one’s taxes to be morally wrong.