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    In the pandemic, the share of unpartnered moms at work fell more sharply than among other parents
    The share of unpartnered mothers who are employed and at work has fallen more precipitously than among other parents.
    What the data says (and doesn’t say) about crime in the United States
    The two primary sources of government crime statistics both paint an incomplete picture, though efforts at improvement are underway.
    The pace of Boomer retirements has accelerated in the past year
    In the third quarter of 2020, about 28.6 million Baby Boomers reported that they were out of the labor force due to retirement.
    Most Parents of K-12 Students Learning Online Worry About Them Falling Behind
    As school districts across the United States continue to grapple with the best way to provide instruction amid the coronavirus outbreak, most parents of students in K-12 schools express concern about their children falling behind in school because of disruptions caused by the pandemic.
    Americans are divided on whether colleges that brought students back to campus made the right decision
    Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.
    Fewer mothers and fathers in U.S. are working due to COVID-19 downturn; those at work have cut hours
    The shares of mothers and fathers who are working have fallen from 2019 to 2020, but the falloff has been comparable for each group.
    Amid National Reckoning, Americans Divided on Whether Increased Focus on Race Will Lead to Major Policy Change
    More Black adults now say the country has work to do to address racial inequality; attitudes of White adults have changed little since 2019.
    Few in U.S. owned stocks outside of 401(k)s in 2019, fewer said market had a big impact on their view of economy
    Before COVID-19, wages, job availability and health care costs mattered more than the stock market in Americans' views of how the economy was doing.
    The ways Hispanics describe their identity vary across immigrant generations
    More than half of foreign-born Latinos describe themselves using the name of their origin country, versus 39% among U.S.-born adult children of immigrants.
    Economic Fallout From COVID-19 Continues To Hit Lower-Income Americans the Hardest
    Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.

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