The changing face of Congress in 8 charts
The 118th Congress achieved a variety of demographic milestones when its members took office, though it still remains out of step with the U.S. population.
The 118th Congress achieved a variety of demographic milestones when its members took office, though it still remains out of step with the U.S. population.
Both the number and share of new college graduates with a bachelor’s degree in education have decreased over the last few decades.
In 2020, the U.S. experienced a record number of gun murders, as well as a near-record number of gun suicides.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Donald Trump's four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
124 lawmakers today identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American, a 97% increase over the 107th Congress of 2001-02.
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.
An estimated 36% of U.S. public primary schools had sworn officers on site at least once a week in the 2015-16 school year, up from 21% a decade earlier.
The share of U.S. public secondary schools with sworn officers on site has increased in the past decade.