Key facts about Americans and guns
Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 percentage points from spring 2022.
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Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 percentage points from spring 2022.
Veterans and non-veterans in the United States largely align when it comes to the decision to pull all troops out of Afghanistan.
Many single-and-looking people wouldn’t want to date someone who voted for the opposing party’s candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Nearly seven-in-ten registered voters say postponing state primary elections has been a necessary step to address the coronavirus outbreak.
About nine-in-ten Americans say conflicts between Democrats and Republicans are strong or very strong; 71% say these conflicts are very strong.
The public sees health risks to students and teachers as the top factor to be given a lot of consideration as schools decide whether to reopen.
Veterans of prime working age generally fare at least as well as non-veterans in the U.S. job market, though there are differences in the work they do.
To mark Labor Day, here’s what we know about who American workers are, what they do and the U.S. working environment in general.
Classes have ended for the summer at U.S. public schools, but a sizable share of teachers are still hard at work at second jobs outside the classroom.
More than a third of the states that allow executions haven’t carried one out in at least 10 years or, in some cases, much longer.
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