9 facts about U.S. Catholics
Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
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Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination.
In 2022, there were 63.7 million Hispanics living in the United States. The U.S. Hispanic population has diverse origins in Latin America and Spain.
Four-in-ten Americans who get news from social media say inaccuracy is the thing they dislike most about it – an increase of 9 percentage points since 2018.
The median age of voting House lawmakers is 57.9 years, while the new Senate’s median age is 65.3 years.
In an open-ended question allowing Americans to name which country they see as the greatest threat to the U.S., 50% name China.
The food stamp program is one of the larger federal social welfare initiatives, and in its current form has been around for nearly six decades.
The number of international migrants grew to 281 million in 2020; 3.6% of the world’s people lived outside their country of birth that year.
Black adults in upper-income families are about twice as likely as those in lower-income families to say they are extremely or very happy.
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
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.
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