Most Black Americans say they can meet basic needs financially, but many still experience economic insecurity
Fewer than half of Black adults say they have a three-month emergency fund, and some have taken multiple jobs to make ends meet.
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Fewer than half of Black adults say they have a three-month emergency fund, and some have taken multiple jobs to make ends meet.
About a quarter of Latino adults say they have personally experienced discrimination or unfair treatment from other Latinos.
The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 47.9 million in 2022, up about a third (32%) since 2000.
Most Asian Americans say violence against them is increasing, and most also worry at least some of the time about being threatened or attacked.
Nearly four-in-ten Latinos (39%) say they worry that they, a family member or someone close to them could be deported.
In 2018-19, 79% of White elementary and secondary public school students went to schools where at least half of their peers were also White.
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.
What does the 2020 electorate look like politically, demographically and religiously as the race enters its final days?
About half of Black Americans (51%) say they are very or extremely informed about the history of Black people in the U.S.
U.S. Hispanics’ policy views do not always align with those of non-Latinos in the same party, recent surveys have found.
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