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    Bipartisan Support for Early In-Person Voting, Voter ID, Election Day National Holiday

    47% of Americans favor banning groups from collecting completed ballots to return to official voting centers, while 50% oppose this. The public is also divided over removing people from voter registration lists if they have not voted recently or confirmed their registration, with slightly more opposing this (55%) than supporting it (44%).

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    4. How COVID-19 impacted Americans’ relationship with technology

    Colleen McClain, Olivia Sidoti and Monica Anderson contributed to this chapter. For many Americans, life in the early days of COVID-19 was lived on screens. Schools pivoted to virtual learning and businesses shuttered or moved online as in-person contact risked spreading the virus. Not everyone could – or wanted to – avoid in-person interaction. And […]

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    2. How Americans protect their online data

    Online security can take many forms, whether it’s a company’s privacy policy or the password you choose for your email. This chapter discusses Americans’ views of and habits toward privacy policies, passwords and cybersecurity. In some cases, these opinions and experiences differ significantly by age, education level, race and ethnicity. How people approach privacy policies […]

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    2. Biden’s job rating, personal traits and whether he will be a successful president

    Today, 33% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s job performance, while 65% disapprove. Biden’s overall approval rating is nearly identical to his rating last month. Biden also gets low marks for many personal traits and characteristics, with two exceptions: 62% say “even-tempered” describes Biden very or fairly well, while half say he stands up […]

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    1. Americans’ views on use of AI in hiring

    People seeking employment must increasingly put their “best foot forward” not just to a hiring manager, but to a computer program with power to weed them out or deliver them to the next step of the process. The use of artificial intelligence in hiring is commonplace and can take a number of forms, from screening […]

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    1. Americans’ experiences with virtual religious services

    Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) regularly watch religious services online or on TV, while a third regularly attend services in person, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in November 2022. The survey took place as the coronavirus pandemic was winding down but before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared […]

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    2. Race, ethnicity and parenting

    Views of and experiences with parenthood differ in particular ways among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Black and Hispanic parents are more likely than White and Asian parents to say being a parent is the most important aspect of who they are as people, though large majorities of all groups say it […]

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    2. Americans’ views on use of AI to monitor and evaluate workers

    A variety of digital tools are being used to monitor workers across various industries, some of which use artificial intelligence (AI) to try to gain insights into workers’ performance. These tools can track what workers do on their computers, how they are driving on the job, their movements within the workplace and even their tone […]

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    1. Religion and religious affiliation

    Despite growth in the share of people who are not religiously affiliated, religion continues to have significant consequences for American society and politics. As a result, we take great care in how we measure religious affiliation and related attitudes and behaviors. The decline of religion in the United States and many other Western democracies is […]