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Latin America and the Caribbean's score of 56 on Gallup's Law and Order Index in 2013 is the lowest in the world and no better than the region's score five years ago.

This International Women's Day, Gallup talks to four female interviewers in Latin America about why they do the work they do, the challenges they've faced and what they've learned from working with the World Poll.

Two-thirds of lower-income adults in the U.S. say they worry a great deal about hunger and homelessness, up from 51% in 2010-2011, and much greater than worry among higher-income groups.

Almost seven in 10 Americans worry about theft of the credit card information they have used in stores, higher than their worry about any of a list of 13 crimes. Almost as many worry about having their smartphones or computers hacked.

The 23% of Americans naming immigration as the most important problem is the highest Gallup has recorded, though slightly more still say the government is the top U.S. problem.

Minneapolis-St. Paul area residents are the most likely to say they feel safe walking alone at night where they live, among those who reside in the 50 largest U.S. metro areas. Memphis area residents are the least likely to feel safe.

Gallup's latest report on charitable giving worldwide shows people don't need to be rich to be generous.

Contrary to the sharp decline in the United States' violent crime rate since the mid-1990s, the majority of Americans (68% this year) believe crime is up, as they have for most of the past decade. More than half also say the U.S. crime problem ...

More Americans say the Democratic Party (47%) than the Republican Party (39%) is better able to handle the "the most important problem" facing the U.S. They most often name the government and the coronavirus as the top problem.

Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults say the laws covering firearm sales should be stricter, up from 60% last fall and the highest since 1993.