Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Here’s a brief overview of four paths that many highly educated immigrants take to study and work in the U.S.: the H-1B visa program, the F-1 visa program, the Optional Practical Training program and green cards.
In many countries, actively religious people are more likely than their less-religious peers to describe themselves as very happy.
People who are active in religious congregations tend to be happier and more civically engaged than either religiously unaffiliated adults or inactive members of religious groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the United States and more than two dozen other countries.
The American public’s views of the impact immigrants have on the country remain largely positive – and deeply partisan.
Social scientists are increasingly adopting machine learning methods to analyze large amounts of text, images and other kinds of data.
Nearly 14% of the U.S. population is foreign-born. That’s the highest share of foreign-born people in the country since 1910, but it’s far from the highest in the world.
Explore detailed tables on the number and share of immigrants and emigrants by country.
The 2020 U.S. presidential election is rapidly coming into view – and so is the electorate that will determine its outcome. While demographic changes unfold slowly, it’s already clear that the 2020 electorate will be unique in several ways. Nonwhites will account for a third of eligible voters – their largest share ever – driven […]
While partisans agree that political leaders should be honest and ethical, they differ over whether particular leaders display these traits.
