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Gallup, Pew Center and Washington Post/ABC News surveys all showed that Americans, for the most part, support the tax package approved by the Senate on Wednesday.

Almost 2 million jobs have moved to immigrants from U.S.-born workers since the most recent recession officially ended 16 months ago, according to a poll released Friday.

Americans are evenly split on which political party should control Congress, while about a third of likely voters are apathetic, according to a Pew Research Center poll released Monday.

Americans are dropping their landlines for cell phones, making it tougher for pollsters to get a good read on public opinion. That's because surveying people via cell phones raises a range of economic and ethical issues.

With social networking transforming the way people relate to each other, some fear technology "generation gaps" are increasing. Yet just as Mick Jagger's lips didn't end Western Civilization, the truth is texting, twittering and blogging will only increase connections between people and generations.

Among the results of a Pew Research Center survey on napping, released Wednesday, is this illuminating factoid: the unemployed are more likely to nap during the week, and lower income adults are disproportionately more likely to nap than middle and upper income adults. Also, more men than women...