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Public K-12 teachers express low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future of U.S. education.
The share of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents has become a majority since U.S. coronavirus cases began spreading early this year.
Response to the pandemic has pushed the federal budget higher than it’s been in decades, but Americans are slightly less concerned about the deficit than in recent years.
Women make up just over a quarter of all members of the 117th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Here’s what our surveys have found about how Americans across the age spectrum have experienced the coronavirus pandemic.
The official U.S. unemployment rate understated the situation for women, Asian Americans, immigrants and workers without a bachelor’s degree.
Depression is rising among American teenagers, and teen girls are particularly likely to have had recent depressive episodes.
The experiences of several groups of workers in the COVID-19 outbreak vary notably from how they experienced the Great Recession.
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