A third of Americans experienced high levels of psychological distress during the coronavirus outbreak
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
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Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
Most Americans are at least somewhat happy with their lives, but some have grappled with issues like loneliness and work-life balance.
Depression is rising among American teenagers, and teen girls are particularly likely to have had recent depressive episodes.
Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults say they have had a physical reaction at least some or a little of the time when thinking about the outbreak.
New projections indicate that the female share of the labor force will peak at 47.1% in 2025 and then taper off to 46.3% by 2060.
A larger share of young women live at home with their parents or other relatives than at any point since 1940, as more attend college and marry later in life.
Ten years ago this weekend, Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people. From the start, the tragedy had a powerful racial component – images of poor, mostly black New Orleans residents stranded on rooftops and crowded amid fetid conditions in what was then the Louisiana Superdome.
Veterans returning from serving in Iraq or Afghanistan say they have found re-entering civilian life to be difficult. A significant share says they have experienced outbursts of anger in daily life. Others say their mental or emotional health is worse since their time in the service, or that they have suffered post-traumatic stress disorder.
Many experts say the rise of embedded and wearable computing will bring the next revolution in digital technology.
In recent years, legislatures and courts, religious leaders and scientists, citizens and patient advocates have all weighed in on end-of-life issues ranging from whether the terminally ill should have the right to take their own lives to how much treatment and sustenance those in the last stages of life should receive.
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