8 facts about Americans with disabilities
Overall, there are about 42.5 million Americans with disabilities, making up 13% of the civilian noninstitutionalized population.
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Overall, there are about 42.5 million Americans with disabilities, making up 13% of the civilian noninstitutionalized population.
More Americans died of gun-related injuries in 2021 than in any other year on record, according to the latest available statistics from the CDC.
The 118th Congress achieved a variety of demographic milestones when its members took office, though it still remains out of step with the U.S. population.
Religiously unaffiliated people were harassed by governments, private groups or both in 27 countries in 2020.
Americans’ views vary when it comes to how they see the United States’ standing in the world and the state of its democracy.
In 2018-19, 79% of White elementary and secondary public school students went to schools where at least half of their peers were also White.
While the share of Black, Hispanic and Asian American teachers has increased, it hasn’t kept pace with the growth in the diversity of students.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year.
While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated some in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past five years. Currently, 59% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 39% say it should be illegal in all or most cases.
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