A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem where they live
49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
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49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
One year into the coronavirus pandemic, about a fifth of U.S. adults (21%) are experiencing high levels of psychological distress.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
More Americans now say the possibility that students will fall behind academically without in-person instruction should be given a lot of consideration.
The public sees health risks to students and teachers as the top factor to be given a lot of consideration as schools decide whether to reopen.
About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment.
Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.
Before COVID-19, wages, job availability and health care costs mattered more than the stock market in Americans’ views of how the economy was doing.
Here’s what our surveys have found about how Americans across the age spectrum have experienced the coronavirus pandemic.
The share of Americans who say they know someone else who has been hospitalized or died due to COVID-19 has increased sharply since spring.
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