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    Public Has Mixed Views on the Modern American Family

    Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about the institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, the public is fairly accepting of diverse family arrangements, though some are seen as more acceptable than others.

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    1. Labor market and economic trends for young adults

    A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, including those who had not finished high school. The overall number of employed young adults has grown over the decades as […]

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    1. How Americans use and engage with podcasts

    About half of adults in the United States (49%) say they have listened to a podcast in the past 12 months, according to the new survey. This finding follows previous Pew Research Center analyses showing that podcast listening has steadily increased throughout the past decade. One-in-five podcast listeners – which is about 10% of all […]

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    1. Views on how Black people are covered in the news

    Black Americans express a range of concerns about how Black people are covered in the news. Our survey asked U.S. Black adults to evaluate several aspects of the news that they see or hear about Black people. In each case, Black Americans are much more likely to offer a negative than positive assessment of news […]

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    3. Black representation in newsrooms

    Black Americans see an important role for Black people in the newsgathering process as one possible way to improve coverage of race and Black communities. But they largely do not feel that their news broadly needs to come from Black journalists, nor do they see reporters’ race as a dominant factor in whether news is […]

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    For Most U.S. Gun Owners, Protection Is the Main Reason They Own a Gun

    Gun owners in the United States continue to cite protection far more than other factors, including hunting and sport shooting, as a major reason they own a gun. About half of Americans who don’t own a gun say they could never see themselves owning one (52%) while nearly as many could imagine themselves as gun owners in the future (47%).

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    1. Views on the Black Lives Matter movement

    Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, a decrease from 56% a year ago. The share who say they strongly support the movement dropped from 26% in 2022 to 22% in the new survey. The decrease in overall support is mostly due to the declining share of White adults […]

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