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    5. Personal experiences with discrimination

    Roughly seven-in-ten black Americans (71%) say they have personally experienced discrimination or been treated unfairly because of their race or ethnicity, including 11% who say this is something they experience regularly. Far lower shares of whites (30%) and Hispanics (52%) report experiencing discrimination because of their race or ethnicity. Overall, four-in-ten black Americans say their […]

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    7. Party ID and news

    Democrats overall express more trust than Republicans in the information they get from national news organizations. Online, those at either end of the ideological spectrum are somewhat more likely to get one-sided news from family and friends; Conservative Republicans are most likely to be OK with it. But both sides see personal contacts as an […]

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    Appendix A: References

    Baker, Bryan and Nancy Rytina. 2013. “Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2012.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Immigration Statistics, March. Bean, Frank D., R. Corona, R. Tuirán and K. Woodrow-Lafield. 1998. “The Quantification of Migration Between Mexico and the United States.” In Migration Between […]

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    2. China and the world

    The world is a dangerous place in the eyes of many people in most of the nations surveyed by Pew Research Center in 2016. Not so the Chinese. They are relatively unconcerned about a range of global threats, with one notable exception. Fully 45% of Chinese see U.S. power and influence as posing a major […]

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    Methodology

    Survey methods The survey date used in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 29 to May 8, 2016, among a national sample of 3,769 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (977 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 2,792 […]

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    7. Views of Barack Obama, the political parties, Congress and the nation’s economy

    Among the public overall, 50% approve of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president, while 44% disapprove. Obama’s job approval is little changed from April (48%) and March (51%), when his job rating reached positive territory for the first time in nearly three years. Obama continues to draw strong ratings among African […]

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    1. Changes in the American workplace

    A shifting economic landscape is driving significant changes in the American workplace. Employment opportunities increasingly lie in jobs requiring higher-level social or analytical skills, or both. Physical or manual skills, as much in demand as social or analytical skills some three decades ago, are fading in importance. Not coincidentally, employment is rising faster in jobs […]