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Learn from Dr. Arthur Brooks about the components of human happiness and what you can do to increase others' happiness and your own.

Birth control, divorce, sex between unmarried people and gambling are among the issues Americans are most likely to find "morally acceptable." Lowest on this list are polygamy, extramarital affairs, and cloning animals and humans.

Eighty-two percent of U.S. Catholics -- and 89% of all Americans -- say birth control is morally acceptable, making it the most acceptable of 18 behaviors Gallup asked about in its May Values and Beliefs survey.

More than three-quarters of U.S. adults believe drinking alcohol is morally acceptable while 65% say the same about smoking marijuana.

Hear from the students at El Rancho Middle School how applying their CliftonStrengths is helping them collaborate, dream big and accomplish goals.

Americans' views toward a number of moral issues have shifted significantly since 2001. But their acceptance of gay and lesbian relations has increased the most, up 19 percentage points in the past 12 years.

Americans have become more tolerant of a number of historically divisive moral issues. The issues can be grouped into five categories of moral acceptance, ranging from nearly universal acceptance to high condemnation.

American Catholics are no less likely than non-Catholics to find abortion and embryonic stem-cell research morally acceptable. While regular churchgoing Catholics are more conservative than other Catholics on these issues, they are no more ...

Nationally, 18.9% of Americans were underemployed in 2010, but rates varied substantially across states. A group of six states, mostly in the middle of the country, had underemployment rates of less than 15%. Nine states had rates of 21% or ...

Gallup's annual survey on values and beliefs asked Americans to rate 16 issues as "morally acceptable" or "morally wrong." A review of the data shows substantial differences between Republicans' and Democrats' views of what is morally ...