A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Blacks have long outnumbered whites in U.S. prisons. But a significant decline in the number of black prisoners has narrowed the gap.
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.
55% of U.S. adults now express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, down from 67% in June.
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary – that is, their gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
The shares of mothers and fathers who are working have fallen from 2019 to 2020, but the falloff has been comparable for each group.
The number of American homeowners increased by an estimated 2.1 million over the past year, according to the Census Bureau.
About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
While the CDC has pointed to some possible factors that may be contributing to this pattern, the public is divided in its perceptions.
52% of US adults say it is very or somewhat important that companies and organizations make public statements about political or social issues.
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