State of the Union 2024: Where Americans stand on the economy, immigration and other key issues
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address Americans are focused on the health of the economy and immigration.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Ahead of President Joe Biden’s third State of the Union address Americans are focused on the health of the economy and immigration.
Here’s a look at public opinion on some of the key issues facing the country, drawn from recent Pew Research Center surveys.
Yet renewable sources, like wind and solar, remain Americans’ overall priority for domestic production.
A large majority of Americans (78%) say tensions between China and Taiwan are at least a somewhat serious problem for the United States.
Despite the many depressing stories dominating the international news cycle, there is also a note of positivity among survey respondents in views of the UN, the benefits of international cooperation for solving problems and the importance of common values for bringing nations together.
Social hostilities around the world involving religion declined in 2019 to the lowest level in five years.
Americans’ views on foreign policy priorities differ based on a number of factors, including their attitudes toward international engagement.
57% of Americans express some sympathy with both Israelis and Palestinians, including 26% who say their sympathies lie equally with both groups.
As the U.S. and Germany prepare to gain new leadership, their relationship remains unbalanced in the minds of their citizenries. Americans see Germany as a partner on many foreign policy issues, but Germans mostly do not.
Americans are now more likely to expect foreign election interference than they were in October 2018, when 67% expected it.
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