6 facts about America’s STEM workforce and those training for it
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
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Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
Majorities of Americans say the federal government, businesses and other actors are doing too little to reduce the effects of climate change.
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
Americans offer a lackluster evaluation of how the country has balanced priorities during the coronavirus outbreak. Fewer than half say the country has given the right amount of priority to the needs of K-12 students, public health or quality of life.
As in 2016, 88% of U.S. adults say its benefits outweigh the risks. And the share who consider its preventive benefits to be “very high” rose by 11 points to 56%.
Majorities of Americans support an array of measures to address climate change but stop short of a full break with fossil fuels.
About six-in-ten Americans believe social distancing measures are helping a lot to slow the spread of coronavirus in the nation.
There are widely held concerns about the safety and effectiveness of a possible vaccine and the pace of the approval process.
Also, a declining share of Republicans say the coronavirus is a major threat to health in the United States.
A strong majority of the American public thinks of science as having a positive effect on society, and most expect continued benefits to accrue from science in the years ahead.
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