Unemployment rose higher in three months of COVID-19 than it did in two years of the Great Recession
The experiences of several groups of workers in the COVID-19 outbreak vary notably from how they experienced the Great Recession.
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The experiences of several groups of workers in the COVID-19 outbreak vary notably from how they experienced the Great Recession.
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
Donald Trump’s four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
More than four-in-ten U.S. businesses with paid employees are in industries likely to be financially affected more deeply by the outbreak.
There is a common concern across most of the surveyed publics around environmental protection. A median of seven-in-ten report that climate change is having at least some effect in the area where they live. About half or more consider climate change to be a very serious problem; public concern about climate change is up since […]
Americans who recently protested are more likely to live in an urban area and to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party.
Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they’ve been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.
The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.
Buddhists made up roughly 7% of the world’s population in 2015. Half of the world’s Buddhists live in China.
The analysis of living arrangements, marriages and fatherhood is based on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the U.S. Census Bureau’s monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly survey of approximately 60,000 households and is the source of the nation’s official statistics on unemployment. The Bureau conducts the ASEC each […]
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