Key facts about the nation’s 47.9 million Black Americans
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
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The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.
U.S. Hispanics’ policy views do not always align with those of non-Latinos in the same party, recent surveys have found.
A slim majority of Americans say there is a lot or some common ground between the foreign policy positions of Republicans and Democrats in Washington.
72% of Americans say taking in civilian refugees should be an important goal for immigration policy in the United States.
An estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020.
House Freedom Caucus members and their allies produced 28% of all tweets from GOP House members between September 2022 and mid-January 2023.
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.
One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.
16 states and the territory of American Samoa still observe the second Monday in October as an official public holiday exclusively called Columbus Day.
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