Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue, but what does the data say?
With Election Day approaching, here’s a closer look at voter attitudes on violent crime and an analysis of the nation’s violent crime rate.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
With Election Day approaching, here’s a closer look at voter attitudes on violent crime and an analysis of the nation’s violent crime rate.
Around two-thirds of Black Democrats (66%) say that whether someone is a man or woman is determined by their sex at birth.
In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
As the drive to inoculate more people continues, here are 10 facts about Americans and COVID-19 vaccines.
Here’s a closer look at public opinion on the death penalty, as well as key facts about the nation’s use of capital punishment.
Americans are closely divided over whether people convicted of crimes spend too much, too little or about the right amount of time in prison.
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
A third of U.S. adults say they changed their Thanksgiving plans “a great deal,” while roughly a quarter changed their plans “some.”
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