Pew Research Center Staff

More than three-quarters of Americans have heard at least a little about the problems in the financial markets involving investment banks but, among this large segment of the public, fully 80% say the government has done only a fair job or a poor job addressing problems in the nation's financial markets.

Nearly half (48%) of Americans of the Hindu faith have a post-graduate education.

More than 270,000 Oregonians have already cast their ballots via mail for today's primary.

At the start of this year's election season, only 22% of U.S. adults said that gay marriage will be important to their vote in the coming elections.

More than a third (37%) of papal coverage focused on the sex abuse scandal.

That's the proportion of African Americans who say that the income gap between whites and blacks has widened over the last decade.

By a margin of more than six-to-one (61% to 9%), the U.S. public now says free trade agreements result in job losses rather than in the creation of new jobs.

Two of every three women ages 50-64 say today's mothers are doing a worse job as parents than mothers did 20 or 30 years ago -- the highest level of criticism among any age-sex group in the US population.

A majority (51%) of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters now says the undecided nomination contest is bad for the party, up from 27% in late February.

A single pair of follow-up stories to The New York Times military analyst expose have appeared in the mainstream press, according to a PEJ analysis.