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    1. Hispanic Americans’ news habits and sources

    About one-in-five Hispanic adults (22%) say they follow the news all or most of the time, down from 28% in 2022. The share of U.S. adults overall who say they closely follow the news also has been declining. Although we did not ask this question of the overall U.S. population in 2023, Latinos were less […]

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    The changing face of Congress in 7 charts

    The 119th Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse in history, and it includes the nation’s first openly transgender legislator at the federal level.

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    3. Black Americans’ views on transgender and nonbinary issues

    The intersection of race with gender identity and sexuality presents a unique set of challenges for Black Americans. Although most Black adults say they experience discrimination because of their race (79%), many scholars and activists say the nature of discrimination changes when people have multiple identities. This compounded nature of inequality was termed “intersectionality” in […]

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    1. Global perceptions of inequality and discrimination

    In our 36-country survey, we asked respondents how large a problem various types of inequality are in their nation, including the gap between the rich and the poor, unequal rights for men and women, discrimination based on a person’s race or ethnicity, and discrimination based on a person’s religion. Here are some key takeaways: The […]

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    10. Prayer and other religious practices

    Fewer Americans pray daily today than in 2007. Read about how often U.S. adults participate in prayer groups, read scripture and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center.

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    3. Black representation in newsrooms

    Black Americans see an important role for Black people in the newsgathering process as one possible way to improve coverage of race and Black communities. But they largely do not feel that their news broadly needs to come from Black journalists, nor do they see reporters’ race as a dominant factor in whether news is […]

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