Blacks See Job Discrimination as Chronic
Two-thirds of all African Americans report that discrimination is commonly encountered when blacks apply for a job (67%), a view shared by only 20% of whites and 36% of Hispanics.
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Two-thirds of all African Americans report that discrimination is commonly encountered when blacks apply for a job (67%), a view shared by only 20% of whites and 36% of Hispanics.
That’s the percentage of Americans who disagree with the idea that success in life is mostly determined by forces outside a person’s control.
That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say they converted to Islam, 77% say they have always been a Muslim
That’s the percentage by which turnout among young voters (ages 18-25) increased in 2004 over the previous presidential election in 2000 — the largest increase in any single age group. But young people still lag on basic measures of political engagement.
That’s the percentage of Muslim Americans who say that mosques should express their views on day-to-day social and political matters, 49% of U.S. Muslims take the opposite view.
That’s the number of Americans who support the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, somewhat fewer than in the late 1990s, but little changed since 2001.
In all 47 nations included in a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, large majorities say international trade is a good thing for their countries.
That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.
That’s the number of Americans who now say they favor “affirmative action programs to help blacks, women and other minorities get better jobs and education,” a 12-point increase since 1995, with support increasing among most demographic and political groups.
That’s the proportion of American pentecostals who say that the government should take steps to make the U.S. a Christian nation, rather than emphasizing the distinction between church and state.
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