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Despite widening gaps in politics and demographics, Americans across community types have a lot in common in key facets of their lives.
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Despite widening gaps in politics and demographics, Americans across community types have a lot in common in key facets of their lives.
At least four secretaries of state previously worked as top executives for large private-sector companies.
Pew Research Center President Michael Dimock examines the changes – some profound, some subtle – that the U.S. experienced during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Religious institutions are starting to formally address the participation of transgender people in their congregations, much as they have with the issue of accepting homosexuals.
An overwhelming share of America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adults (92%) say society has become more accepting of them in the past decade and an equal number expect it to grow even more accepting in the decade ahead. They attribute the changes to a variety of factors, from people knowing and interacting with someone […]
Assessments about the state of black progress in America have improved more dramatically among blacks during the past two years than at any time in the past quarter century.
The cohort of young adults who have grown up with personal computers, cell phones and the internet and are now taking their place in a world where the only constant is rapid change.
The idea that each generation of children will grow up to be better off than the one that preceded it has always been a part of the American dream.
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