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51% of working parents of children younger than 12 say it has been at least somewhat difficult to handle child care responsibilities recently.
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51% of working parents of children younger than 12 say it has been at least somewhat difficult to handle child care responsibilities recently.
Some 16% of Americans have ever earned money from an online gig platform. While most gig platform workers say they have had a positive experience with these jobs, some report facing on-the-job troubles like being treated rudely or sexually harassed.
Earnings overall have held steady through the pandemic in part because lower-wage workers experienced steeper job losses.
A quarter of U.S. adults ages 25 to 34 resided in a multigenerational family household in 2021, up from 9% in 1971.
Roughly 9.6 million U.S. workers lost their jobs during the COVID-19 downturn; only about 2.6 million EU workers lost jobs in this period.
During the first 60 days of the new administration, roughly half of stories about the Biden administration mentioned Donald Trump in some way.
National polls like the Center’s come within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response rate federal surveys.
About a quarter of Latino adults say they have personally experienced discrimination or unfair treatment from other Latinos.
As 2021 draws to a close, here are some of Pew Research Center’s most striking research findings from the past year.
A 24-country survey finds a median of 59% are dissatisfied with how their democracy is functioning, and 74% think elected officials don’t care what people like them think.
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