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This presentation focuses on the Project's findings about the role of libraries when Americans are trying to solve problems.

Eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say they consider not reporting all income on one's tax returns to be morally wrong, while just 5% consider it morally acceptable and 14% say it's not a moral issue.

Republican dissatisfaction with the country's overall direction has risen significantly in recent months with a solid 56% majority of Republicans now saying they are dissatisfied with the nation's course, and only 40% expressing satisfaction.

Nearly half of Americans now say that rising prices are their top personal economic concern; just 19% cite the job situation.

If current trends continue, 82% of the projected 142 million people who will be added to the U.S. population by 2050 will be immigrants arriving between 2005 and 2050 and their U.S.-born descendants.

More than one-quarter of American adults (28%) have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion -- or no religion at all.

One-quarter of all adult Americans under age 30 (25%) are not affiliated with any particular religion, which is more than three times the number of unaffiliated adults ages 70 and older (8%).

More than a third of online adults (36%) have used a search engine to find information about famous or notable people.

Nearly half (48%) of Americans, many of whom will be struggling to meet today's deadline for filing with the IRS, say they think the tax system is either completely (19%) or mostly (29%) unfair to people like them, slightly fewer than said so in 2002.

Pew Internet Project researcher Mary Madden recently appeared on "All Things Considered" to discuss teens, social networking and privacy choices online.