Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about many aspects of the country’s future
63% of Americans are pessimistic about the country’s moral and ethical standards, and 59% are pessimistic about its education system.
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63% of Americans are pessimistic about the country’s moral and ethical standards, and 59% are pessimistic about its education system.
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69% of adults say they got any of their tattoos to honor or remember someone or something. 47% say they got a tattoo to make a statement about what they believe.
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A majority of those who say it’s headed in the wrong direction say a major reason is that schools are not spending enough time on core academic subjects.
58% of those ages 18 to 29 have experienced high levels of psychological distress at least once between March 2020 and September 2022.
59% of public K-12 teachers say they are at least somewhat worried about the possibility of a shooting ever happening at their school.
The number of males has exceeded the number of females since the mid-1960s. But by 2050, the worldwide sex ratio is expected to even out.
Two-thirds or more in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam say that women should decide for themselves whether to bear children.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
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