Word: polle
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...this year, in the midst of a historic economic downturn (our cover story is on unemployment), when many people are struggling, we commissioned a poll to look at how people are serving these days. The most striking results centered not on volunteering but on the cash register. (See page 40.) Even as people acknowledged that times were tough, 38% of Americans 18 and older, some 86 million people, reported taking a number of socially conscious actions this year, including buying green products and goods from companies they thought had responsible values...
...Want to participate? Urlesque has a YouTube video and a page explaining the ban, but the easiest way is to keep your LOLs as far away from cats as you can on Sept. 9. Urlesque even took a poll to find an underplayed animal that is deserving of a day in the sun. The winner? Bunnies...
Eight years after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Muslim Americans - particularly Muslim-American women - continue to face battles in their struggle for acceptance and the right to wear religious garb in public settings. A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that Americans see Muslims as encountering more discrimination than any other religious group. But while Americans are more likely to be familiar with Islam or personally know a Muslim than they were at the time of the attacks, levels of tolerance are lower today than they were in the months immediately following Sept...
...message appeared to sink in. A Pew Forum poll conducted that November found that only 17% of Americans held unfavorable views of Muslim Americans, a decrease from 24% just eight months earlier. The shift was most striking among conservative Republicans - in March 2001, 40% viewed Muslim Americans unfavorably, but by November, that number had plummeted by more than half to 19%. In the wake of the attacks, Americans were also reluctant to say that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths; only one-quarter agreed with that statement in March 2002. But by the time the war in Iraq began...
...Today, the broad tolerance that existed in the days following 9/11 has largely evaporated. Nearly 40% of Americans still say they think Islam is more likely to encourage violence, according to a new Pew Forum survey, and only a minority hold favorable views of Muslims (the latest poll does not distinguish between Muslims and Muslim Americans...