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Residents of five states gave President Barack Obama 50% or better job approval ratings in 2014, with Massachusetts and Hawaii leading the list at roughly 53%. Wyoming residents were the least approving, at 19.3%.

Gallup and Healthways in January turned on their Well-Being Index in the United Kingdom. With three months of daily surveys now collected, the companies today shared the inaugural findings.

The pursuit of happiness is clearly alive and well. Two recent studies on that subject based on Gallup's data have been generating a fair bit of chatter.

Small-business owners are more optimistic now than at any time since late 2008. The Small Business Index improved to +25 in July, from +16 in April -- an improvement tied to increased optimism about the ease of obtaining credit.

Remote work is dominant among the white-collar U.S. workforce, with more than seven in 10 working from home, unchanged through most of the pandemic. Many of these want to keep doing so.

A huge part of what we're doing at Gallup revolves around the topic of well-being. With the behavioral economic data we're collecting every day around the world, we're working to help leaders better understand what makes a healthy, happy, and ...

U.S. small-business owners' net hiring for the past year was -12 in April, on par with -9 in April 2012, according to the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index. Owners' net hiring intentions are down slightly from a year ago.

U.S. small-business owners became slightly more optimistic in April, with the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index rising to +16, from +9 in January. Owners rate their cash flows at their best levels in nearly five years.

The percentage of Americans lacking health insurance coverage continued to vary widely across U.S. metro areas in 2012, from 4% in Burlington, Vt., and the Boston-Cambridge area to 49% in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas.

Boulder, Colo., remains the U.S. metro area with the lowest obesity rate in the U.S. for the third year in a row, at 12.5% in 2012. Obesity remains highest in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas, at 38.5%.