Topic: Pew Research Center

Here is good news for conservatives and Republicans if they can take advantage of it.. A new Pew Research poll finds only about one in five registered voters believe they can trust the federal government to do the right thing "just about ...
If you are like the overwhelming majority of Americans, you are likely to read or hear about this story again on TV, the radio, newspapers, and other Internet sites. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism report, released Monday, finds ...

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When President Obama delivers his first State of the Union address before Congress Wednesday night, investors will have plenty of reasons to tune in.. For Obama, the speech represents an opportunity to regain some of the support he enjoyed during his successful ...
According to new research from the social and demographic trend-trackers at the Pew Research Center, nearly half of us would rather live somewhere other than our current address.. "It's wanderlust," theorizes Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center, and ...
Americans like to live in diverse communities. In the 2008 election, 48 percent of the votes for president were cast in counties where President-elect Barack Obama or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won by more than 20 percentage points, according to the Pew ...

Conservatives Happier Than Liberals

Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and new research pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. To justify economic inequalities, a person could support the idea of meritocracy, in which people supposedly move up their economic status in ...