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Principal Talent as Seen Through Teachers' Eyes

Americans put more confidence in President Obama to do the right thing for the U.S. economy than in Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress. Americans' confidence in Obama is up from last year.

U.S. worry about global warming is heading back up after several years of diminished concern. Views toward most global warming issues now fall halfway between record levels of belief and skepticism.

Americans support setting nutritional standards for all food served at public schools, even food served at snack bars and bake sales. However, most oppose prohibiting students from bringing packed lunches from home to school.

Adults whose primary health insurance is Medicaid are more than twice as likely to have certain preventable chronic health problems as are those adults with employer-based insurance. Medicaid recipients are also much more likely to smoke.

Teachers in the United States rate their lives better than those in most other occupation groups, trailing only physicians. Teachers also are in great emotional health, but their workplace well-being lags other professions.

Lincoln, Neb., is tops in well-being out of a list of 189 U.S. metropolitan areas Gallup and Healthways surveyed in 2012. Charleston, W.Va., comes in last. Washington, D.C., has the highest well-being across large metro areas.

Americans prefer their representatives in Congress vote to pass legislation this week that would avoid the scheduled March 1 sequestration (45%) rather than let the budget sequestration go into effect as planned (37%).

U.S. Hispanics who are Protestant are more religious (60% "very religious") than those who are Catholic (43%). The percentage of Catholic Hispanics has decreased in recent years.

Fewer Americans reported having employer-based health insurance in 2012 than did in 2008, 2009, and 2010, but at 44.5%, this figure is unchanged from 2011. Government-based health insurance continues to trend up.