Pew Research Center Staff

Only about a third of Americans (35%) say they follow the stock market on a regular basis.

When he formally enters the 2008 race this week, former Sen. Fred Thompson can behave in all ways like a presidential candidate. But on his "testing the waters" website, I'mwithFred.com, he's already been busy reaching out to supporters.

As recently as June, more than six-in-ten Americans (62%) still expected U.S. housing prices to continue to rise.

That's the plurality of at-home moms who consider the increase in working mothers bad for society; some 34% of working moms agree.

That's the number of U.S. adults who say that the growing number of children in this country born to unmarried mothers is a "big problem," although there is little agreement on the primary cause of the problem.

That's the percentage of Muslim Americans who say that since the 9/11 attacks, it has become more difficult to be a Muslim in the United States; 40% see no change.

That's the proportion of foreign-born Latino workers in the lowest fifth of the wage distribution, a significant decline from the 42% who were low wage workers a decade earlier.

That's the number of Americans who recently said it was difficult to find a job in their community -- a proportion that rises to 55% when the qualifier "good job" is added to the question.

That's the proportion of Americans who, in January 1973 when the signing of the Paris Peace Accords ended direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, said that sending U.S. troops there was a mistake.

That's the percent of Americans who now say that children are very important for a marriage to succeed, down from 65% who said so in 1990.