Oct. 19, 2022 (MIAMI) – Americans are more likely to think about the news media as a for-profit enterprise rather than a democratic institution, according to a new Gallup/Knight Foundation study, released today, yet their behaviors and attitudes about paying … Read more
Soon after NASA shared the first stunning images taken by the agency’s new, powerful James Webb Space Telescope, a new online opinion poll asked Americans: was the nearly $10 billion observatory a good investment? And the resounding answer: yes. Today, … Read more
Americans prefer real estate to any other investment, a new survey shows—with millennials liking it most. But housing is a so-so way of making money. It’s hard to sell quickly and often needs upkeep that can cost thousands of dollars … Read more
Americans have long been proud of their supermarkets. The first grocer with food in aisles, to be picked up by shoppers rather than kept behind a counter, opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916. In Bentonville, the hometown of Walmart in … Read more
You’re not imagining it: The flood of spam calls, texts, emails and social media posts into your life is getting a lot bigger. Why it matters: Junk messages aren’t just annoying — they also open the door to more fraud, … Read more
Apr 2nd 2022 IN THE MONTH since Russia invaded Ukraine, Joe Biden has called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” and a “butcher”. New polling from YouGov/ The Economist suggests that younger Americans are far more equivocal in their views on … Read more
Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here. To understand how ideologically scrambling the Omicron wave has been, consider this: Some 2022 Democrats are sounding like 2020 Republicans. In spring 2020, many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, insisted that COVID was hardly … Read more
Feb 14th 2018 by THE DATA TEAM HOW likely is someone to move up the economic ladder? A new study by Alberto Alesina, Stefanie Stantcheva and Edoardo Teso of Harvard University compares perceptions of social mobility in five countries—America, Britain, … Read more
Despite consumer opposition to facial recognition, the technology is currently being used in retail stores throughout the US according to new research from Piplsay. While San Francisco banned the police from using facial recognition back in 2019 and the EU … Read more
Story Highlights Current life satisfaction fully recovers, now exceeds 2019 levels Significant daily worry and stress drop to pre-COVID estimates Daily enjoyment is improved, boredom reduced WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to … Read more