Pew Research Center Staff

Roughly half of Americans say TARP, federal loans to troubled banks, did not prevent a more severe financial crisis.

Six-in-ten Americans say the economic stimulus has not helped the job situation.

Nearly six-in-ten adults in the U.S. say they pray at least once a day.

Nearly six-in-ten news executives say journalism is headed in the “wrong direction.”

Despite mounting revenue problems, most news executives have serious reservations about receiving government or advocacy dollars.

After rising to their highest levels in two decades, birth rates in the U.S. declined a bit in 2008, a result that appears to be linked to the recession.

Seven-in-ten Americans say Pope Benedict has done a poor (44%) or only fair (24%) job in addressing the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church.

When asked to give a one-word impression of the Tea Party movement, a plurality of respondents offered a negative word.

Practiced by relatively few in 1900, Christianity and Islam are now dominant religions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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