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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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.
About seven-in-ten say young adults today have a harder time when it comes to saving for the future, paying for college and buying a home.
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.
55% of Americans say there are too few women in top executive business positions. This is down somewhat from 59% who said this in 2018.
In 2022, women earned an average of 82% of what men earned, according to a new analysis of median hourly earnings of full- and part-time workers.
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 reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
Most K-12 students at U.S. public schools have a school year of about 180 days, but when that year starts and ends varies substantially by region.
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