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Public K-12 teachers express low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future of U.S. education.
Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about the institution of marriage and the family. At the same time, the public is fairly accepting of diverse family arrangements, though some are seen as more acceptable than others.
For the most part, Americans don’t think a woman president would do better or worse than a man when it comes to key leadership traits or the handling of various policy areas. At the same time, the public sees differences in the way men and women running for higher office are treated by the media.
On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
When Americans peer 30 years into the future, they see a country in decline economically, politically and on the world stage.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
Women in STEM jobs are more likely than their male counterparts to have experienced discrimination in the workplace and to believe that discrimination is a major reason there are not more women in STEM.
There are deep divisions between blacks and whites in how they see racial discrimination, barriers to black progress and prospects for change.
Kim Parker, associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project, and Wendy Wang, research associate, answer questions from readers on the Modern Parenthood survey,
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