Super Busy Young Americans
That’s the portion of Gen Next Americans (ages 18-25) who say they are both going to school and working either part-time or full-time.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
All
Publications
That’s the portion of Gen Next Americans (ages 18-25) who say they are both going to school and working either part-time or full-time.
That’s the percentage of U.S. adults who used the internet during the 2006 midterm election campaigns to get political news and information and to discuss the races through email. And the number of Americans using the internet as their main source of political material doubled since the last mid-term election, rivaling the number from the 2004 presidential election year.
That’s the percentage of American adults who support finding “a middle ground” when it comes to abortion. Three-in-ten Americans believe “there’s no room for compromise when it comes to abortion laws.”
That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.
All of the 50 states but one, Delaware, have lost National Guard troops in the U.S. war on terror. Pennsylvania has suffered the highest number of losses — 31 of a total of 480 Guard deaths since Sept. 11, 2001.
An estimated one-third (33%) of all Catholics in the United States are now Hispanics; given long-term demographic trends, the Hispanic presence in the nation’s largest single religious denomination is certain to grow.
That’s the percent of Americans who say corporate profits are too high, up from 59% in 2003.
That’s the proportion of Republican and GOP-leaning registered voters who self-identify as conservative white evangelicals — but that number varies widely among key primary states.
A solid majority of Muslim Americans say that a way can be found for the state of Israel to exist so that the rights of the Palestinians are addressed. In this regard, the views of Muslim Americans resemble those of the general public in the United States.
That’s the proportion of Republicans who favor giving illegal immigrants the possibility of obtaining US citizenship; nearly as many within the party (46%) oppose such a move — an indication of the political difficulties that any compromise immigration plan will face on the road to enactment.
Notifications