Americans and affirmative action: How the public sees the consideration of race in college admissions, hiring
Here’s a closer look at what recent surveys have found about Americans’ views of affirmative action.
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Here’s a closer look at what recent surveys have found about Americans’ views of affirmative action.
The share of U.S. workers who belonged to a union in 2023 stood at 10%, down from 1983 when 20.1% of American workers were union members.
Among the roughly 6 million small business firms with employees, 49% have just one to four workers.
A narrow majority of Americans continue to say labor unions have a positive effect on the way things are going in the United States.
Just 9% of the public says it will be less than six months before most public activities operate about as they did before the outbreak.
The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
Democrats are largely united in backing a $15 an hour federal minimum wage. Republican opinion on this issue is more divided.
To mark Labor Day, here’s what we know about who American workers are, what they do and the U.S. working environment in general.
The number of Americans represented by labor unions has decreased substantially since the 1950s, and a new survey finds that the decline is seen more negatively than positively by U.S. adults. The survey also finds that 55% of Americans have a favorable impression of unions, with about as many (53%) viewing business corporations favorably.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the start of the Great Recession, five ways in which the U.S. workforce has changed over the past decade.
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