Gasoline costs more these days, but price spikes have a long history and happen for a host of reasons
Americans are acutely sensitive to gasoline prices, especially when they’re on the rise. But looking just at the recent rise can be misleading.
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Americans are acutely sensitive to gasoline prices, especially when they’re on the rise. But looking just at the recent rise can be misleading.
Women make up 28% of all members of the 118th Congress, a considerable increase from where things stood even a decade ago.
Republican- and Democratic-led states alike already require hundreds of thousands of citizens to be vaccinated against various diseases.
American workers in some sectors and industries are seeing far smaller wage gains than those in others.
Fewer than a third (30.8%) of U.S. teens had a paying job last summer. In 2019, 35.8% of teens worked over the summer.
The 117th Congress’ total legislative output stands at 36 laws – only 30 of which count, by our criteria, as substantive legislation.
A recent Center survey focused on gig platform work. Here is more information about how we crafted the survey and what we learned from it.
Renters headed 36% of U.S. households in 2019. Young people, racial and ethnic minorities, and those with lower incomes are more likely to rent.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
A small but significant share of car owners in the U.S. have traded filling up for plugging in, and many more are thinking of joining them.
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