Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2837 topstories Pew Daily Number en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2837 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090703/ts_pew/49intenselypatrioticamericans pew/20090703/49intenselypatrioticamericans Pew topstories Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - In a 2007 Pew poll, about half (49%) of Americans say they completely agree with the statement "I am patriotic" - a decline from the near-record 56% who said so in August 2003. (In November 1991, 58% said they completely agreed with the statement.) While patriotic sentiment has remained at a very high level for a very long time , strong expressions of patriotism have fluctuated in frequency somewhat. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090702/ts_pew/30nationalsatisfaction pew/20090702/30nationalsatisfaction Pew topstories Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Three-in-ten Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country today, up slightly from the beginning of the year (20%) and three-times higher than the record-low level of satisfaction (11%) reached in October 2008. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090701/ts_pew/51stronglysupportusinvolvementinworldaffairs pew/20090701/51stronglysupportusinvolvementinworldaffairs Pew topstories Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - There is no sign that the public is turning inward in response to difficult economic times; in the latest Pew Research Center values survey, 51% of Americans now say they completely agree that it is best for the future of the country for the U.S. to play an active role in world affairs, up from 42% two years ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090630/ts_pew/31notopreferentialtreatmentyestoaffirmativeaction pew/20090630/31notopreferentialtreatmentyestoaffirmativeaction Pew topstories Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - By a rather consistent margin for the past 22 years Americans have opposed preferential treatment for minorities. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090629/ts_pew/44onlinepoliticalnewsaudiencedoublesonepresidentlater pew/20090629/44onlinepoliticalnewsaudiencedoublesonepresidentlater Pew topstories Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - During Bill Clinton’s final presidential campaign, only 4% of Americans went online for political news. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090626/ts_pew/plus21pointsblacksfeelmoreoptimistic pew/20090626/plus21pointsblacksfeelmoreoptimistic Pew topstories Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Even as attitudes about personal finances have turned more negative, views of the ability of Americans to solve problems have become substantially more optimistic -- especially among African Americans. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090625/ts_pew/51abaremajorityofprotestants pew/20090625/51abaremajorityofprotestants Pew topstories Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - The United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country; the number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at 51%. Moreover, the Protestant population is characterized by significant internal diversity and fragmentation, encompassing hundreds of different denominations loosely grouped around three fairly distinct religious traditions -- evangelical Protestant churches (26.3% of the overall adult population), mainline Protestant churches (18.1%) and historically black Protestant churches (6.9%). While Americans who are unaffiliated with any particular religion have seen the greatest growth in numbers as a result of changes in affiliation, Catholicism has experienced the greatest net losses as a result of affiliation changes. While nearly one-in-three Americans (31%) were raised in the Catholic faith, today fewer than one-in-four (24%) describe themselves as Catholic. These losses would have been even more pronounced were it not for the offsetting impact of immigration. The 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey finds that among the foreign-born adult population, Catholics outnumber Protestants by nearly a two-to-one margin (46% Catholic vs. 24% Protestant); among native-born Americans, on the other hand, Protestants outnumber Catholics by an even larger margin (55% Protestant vs. 21% Catholic). http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090624/ts_pew/49theincredibleshrinkingclassifiedsection pew/20090624/49theincredibleshrinkingclassifiedsection Pew topstories Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - The predicted death of newspapers is often blamed on the internet, but many miss the true online culprit. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090623/ts_pew/no1nevadathemagnetstate pew/20090623/no1nevadathemagnetstate Pew topstories Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Nevada is the nation’s most "magnetic" state; fully 86% of its adult residents were born somewhere else. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090622/ts_pew/119millionundocumentedimmigrantsintheus pew/20090622/119millionundocumentedimmigrantsintheus Pew topstories Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - In 2008, an estimated 11.9 million unauthorized immigrants resided in the United States. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090619/ts_pew/72happyfathersdaylovemom pew/20090619/72happyfathersdaylovemom Pew topstories Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Father’s Day is a little more well deserved these days than it was a generation ago; majorities of both men (59%) and women (62%) say today’s dads have a tougher time now than fathers did 20 or 30 years ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090618/ts_pew/79thesecondcomingofjesus pew/20090618/79thesecondcomingofjesus Pew topstories Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Fully 79% of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Jesus Christ will return to Earth someday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090617/ts_pew/53elderlyworriesaboutgovernmentandhealthcare pew/20090617/53elderlyworriesaboutgovernmentandhealthcare Pew topstories Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Concerns about the government’s involvement in health care are considerably more pronounced among older Americans, almost all of whom participate in the federal Medicare program, than among younger Americans; just 39% of those under age 30 say they are "concerned that the government is becoming too involved in health care," while 53% of those age 65 and older do so. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090616/ts_pew/90its11pmdoyouknowwhatvideogameyourchildisplaying pew/20090616/90its11pmdoyouknowwhatvideogameyourchildisplaying Pew topstories Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Just about every teenager in American plays video games (97%), and an equally overwhelming number of parents of gamers (90%) say they always or sometimes know what games their children play. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090615/ts_pew/26obamasonlineactivists pew/20090615/26obamasonlineactivists Pew topstories Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - Among Americans who go online, voters supporting Barack Obama (26%) were more likely to post political content on the internet than were supporters of John McCain (15%). Online Obama voters were also more likely to engage politically on social networks, donate money online, sign up for email alerts and volunteer online than were online supporters of McCain. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090612/ts_pew/59youngerpeoplelessknowledgeable pew/20090612/59youngerpeoplelessknowledgeable Pew topstories Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - As in the past, younger Americans (ages 18 to 34) are not as knowledge about the news as are older Americans. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090611/ts_pew/23republicanpartyrecession pew/20090611/23republicanpartyrecession Pew topstories Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - An analysis of four months of polling during 2009 -- over 7,000 interviews -- finds that fewer than a quarter of Americans currently identify themselves as Republican, down from 30% in 2004. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090610/ts_pew/31whiteevangelicalsrejectglobalwarming pew/20090610/31whiteevangelicalsrejectglobalwarming Pew science Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - About half (48%) of white mainline Protestants believe the earth is warming as the result of human activity -- roughly the same proportion as among all Americans (47%) -- but only a third of white evangelical Protestants (34%) share that belief. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090609/ts_pew/44freetradersagain pew/20090609/44freetradersagain Pew topstories Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - After an odd year of protectionism, and despite the current recession, the American public is once again on the side of free trade; 44% say that trade agreements like NAFTA and the policies of the World Trade Organization are good for the country, up from 35% a year ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/pewdailynumber/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20090608/ts_pew/11mexicotoamerica pew/20090608/11mexicotoamerica Pew topstories Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:00:00 GMT Pew - A third of all immigrants now living in the U.S. are from Mexico; their number -- 12.7 million -- is very large from Mexico’s perspective, too.