Pew Research shows that many Americans are Optimistic about 2007
- Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that 57% of Americans are Optimistic About '07
- Americans remain fairly gloomy about the way things are going in the United States
- 28% are satisfied with current national conditions, while 65% are dissatisfied
- six-in-ten people (57%) say 2007 will be better.
- 62% of those that attend church on a weekly basis believe that next year will be better while 23% of them do not.
- 56% of those that attend church monthly or less believe 2007 will be better compared to 30% that don’t.
- 52% of those that attend seldom or never believe next year will be better.
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Date: 12/30/2006
Study finds that 17% of US children are overweight
- 17 percent of U.S. youngsters are obese
- Overweight preschoolers have a five times higher risk of being fat at age 12 than do lean preschoolers according to data on more than 2,000 3-year-olds from a study that tracks from birth children born to low-income families in 20 large U.S. cities.
- Thirty-two percent of the white and black tots were either overweight or obese
- 44 percent of the Hispanics.
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Date: 12/29/2006
Gallup Poll Names the Most Respected People in America
- President George Bush tops the list of most admired men being named as such by 13% of Americans.
- Former presidents Bill Clinton (5%) and Jimmy Carter (4%) rank second and third on the list.
- Followed by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (3%), the Rev. Billy Graham (3%), former Secretary of State Colin Powell (2%) and Pope Benedict XVI (2%).
- New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finished first as the most admired woman is her 11th (13%).
- Talk show host Oprah Winfrey finished at 9% in second place for the fifth year in a row
- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was third at 8%
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Date: 12/27/2006
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