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presentationApr 10, 2009

Teens and Social Media: An Overview

This talk presents an overview of Pew Internet project data on teens and social media, including teen tech tool ownership, communication patterns over social networks and mobile phones as well analysis of how young adults 18-29 seeking health info…
reportApr 8, 2009

Smokers Can’t Blow Off Stress

While many say they light up to relieve stress, half of all smokers say they “frequently” experience stress in their daily lives, compared with just 35% of those who once smoked and have now quit, and 31% of those who never smoked.
reportApr 7, 2009

Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System

Latinos’ confidence in the U.S. criminal justice system is closer to the relatively low levels expressed by blacks than to the higher levels expressed by whites.
reportMar 26, 2009

Unusually Wide Gap in ’Satisfaction,’ ’Right Direction’ Measures
reportMar 26, 2009

Unusually Wide Gap in ’Satisfaction,’ ’Right Direction’ Measures

Americans’ perception about the state and direction of the nation usually go hand-in-hand. However, big events, like last fall’s election, can split these two indicators of the public’s national outlook.
reportMar 19, 2009

Support For Health Care Overhaul, But It’s Not 1993

Overview Most Americans believe that the nation’s health care system is in need of substantial changes. But there is less support for completely rebuilding the health care system than there was in April 1993, during the early stage of the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful effort to revamp health care. Still, the public continues to favor the […]
reportMar 19, 2009

Support For Health Care Overhaul, But It’s Not 1993

Overview Most Americans believe that the nation’s health care system is in need of substantial changes. But there is less support for completely rebuilding the health care system than there was in April 1993, during the early stage of the Clinton administration’s unsuccessful effort to revamp health care. Still, the public continues to favor the […]
reportMar 12, 2009

Few in Pakistan Support Extremists

But Few Favor Military Confrontation
fact sheetMar 6, 2009

Stimulus Package Stimulates Church-State Debate

The economic stimulus legislation signed into law on Feb. 17, 2009, by President Barack Obama authorizes state governments to fund the “modernization, renovation and repair” of buildings on public and private college and university campuses. But the provision prevents these schools from using this funding to improve buildings that are “used for sectarian instruction or […]
reportMar 5, 2009

2007, Foreign-Born Population in the United States Statistical Portrait

This statistical profile of the foreign-born population is based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of the Census Bureau’s 2007 American Community Survey.