Is teen summer employment in the U.S. rebounding after a long fade?
Only 35.5% of U.S. teens ages 16 to 19 worked this summer, up slightly from 2025 but far below the more than half who worked most summers before 2000.
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Acknowledgments
Pew Research Center received invaluable advice in developing the study from Christine Emba, staff writer at The Atlantic; Richard Reeves, president, Alanna Williams, associate director, and Ben Smith, research associate at the American Institute for Boys and Men; and Andrew Smiler, licensed therapist and past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men […]
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Americans view Trump, Vance and congressional leaders in both parties more negatively than positively
Democrats now express more disapproval of their congressional leadership than they have in several decades.
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Race and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Schools
We asked public K-12 teachers, teens and U.S. adults how they see topics related to race and LGBTQ issues playing out in the classroom.
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2. Perceived pros and cons of not having children
Among U.S. adults ages 50 and older who never had children, majorities say achieving certain things in life – such as having a fulfilling life, or a successful career – don’t have much to do with whether someone has children. At the same time, many say not having children has made some aspects of life […]
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6. News influencers on Facebook
Far more of the site’s news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than left, and two-thirds are men.
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1. Race and LGBTQ issues in the classroom
To understand how conversations about race and LGBTQ issues are playing out in schools, we asked public K-12 teachers who have been teaching more than one year how often these topics came up in their classroom in the last school year (2022-23). By large margins, Democratic teachers are more likely than Republican teachers to say […]
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How working parents divide family responsibilities
To understand how different-sex couples share household and parenting tasks when both parents have full-time jobs, we asked parents in this type of family who does more when it comes to these responsibilities. The data shows that, in families with a mother and a father, moms often take on more of the load. Read more […]
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Faith First Conservatives
Staunch conservatives and strong Trump supporters who stand out for their faith-oriented politics Faith First Conservatives are deeply conservative in their political values and are stalwart supporters of the Republican Party and Donald Trump, though their political style is not as uncompromising as No Apologies Right (the other typology group firmly at the core of […]
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From political speeches to songs, how would Americans react if they found out AI was involved?
Responses to all seven scenarios that we asked about lean more negative than positive. But many Americans don’t express an opinion in either direction.