Q&A: How Pew Research Center studied press coverage of the Biden administration’s early days
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
Here are six facts about Americans and marijuana from Pew Research Center surveys and other sources.
About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they favor raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, including 40% who strongly back the idea.
Among Republicans, support has declined for allowing early or absentee voting without an excuse and for automatically registering all eligible citizens to vote.
While a few proposals continue to garner bipartisan support, partisan divisions on others – including a ban on assault-style weapons – have grown wider.
The share of Americans viewing illegal immigration as a ‘very big’ problem has increased.
An 85% majority of Democrats say everything possible should be done to make voting easy; 28% of Republicans say this.
67% of U.S. Catholics say Joe Biden should be allowed to receive Communion during Mass, while 29% say he should not be allowed to do this.
Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of Donald Trump’s presidential legacy, a new survey finds.
In Americans' views of some aspects of the COVID-19 outbreak, there is little, or only modest, partisan difference.