Publications

U.S. domestic energy production is rising -- up 13.9% from 2005 to 2012, and on track to rise even more this year.

Overview Most Americans (65%) continue to favor building the Keystone XL pipeline, perhaps the most politically contentious energy issue in Barack Obama’s second term. Yet when it comes to another issue making headlines – a proposal to tighten greenhouse gas emissions from power plants – the public favors stricter limits, by exactly the same margin […]

Until the housing market and home equity levels fully recover, the typical American household still has a ways to go.

The share of Tea Party Republicans who say the economic effect of a government shutdown will be major is 21 points lower than others in the GOP.

Lee Rainie speaks about the Project’s latest research about the way people use libraries and the role they play in their communities.

42 months after U.S. payrolls bottomed out, the economy still hasn't recovered all 8.7 million jobs wiped out in the Great Recession -- the longest and slowest recovery in the postwar era.

Do prizes result in more brilliant work from the world’s best and brightest? Apparently not, at least in mathematics.

Field Dates: 11/9/11 – 12/7/11 Respondents: Nationally-representative sample of 1,220 Latino respondents ages 18 and older Margin of Error: +/-3.6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level This survey focused on politics and the upcoming 2012 presidential election, identity, attitudes regarding immigration and enforcement, and values.

A median of 56% in seven Middle Eastern and North African countries had an unfavorable view of the United Nations.