What the 2020 electorate looks like by party, race and ethnicity, age, education and religion
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
Veterans of prime working age generally fare at least as well as non-veterans in the U.S. job market, though there are differences in the work they do.
Despite improvements in recent decades, the former East Germany trails the former West on several important economic measures.
Trials are rare in the federal criminal justice system: Just 2% of criminal defendants went to trial in fiscal 2018. Acquittals are even rarer.
Amid questions over e-cigarettes and public health, here’s a look at what data shows about vaping in the U.S.
Depression is rising among American teenagers, and teen girls are particularly likely to have had recent depressive episodes.
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.
St. Louis led the nation with 66.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2017. It was followed by Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Turnout in this year’s primaries for Congress and most state governorships surged compared with the last midterms in 2014, particularly among Democrats. Nearly a fifth (19.6%) of registered voters – about 37 million – cast ballots in primary elections for the U.S. House of Representatives – a 56% increase over the 23.7 million who voted in 2014’s House primaries. Turnout that year was 13.7% of registered voters.
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