A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
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.
While the CDC has pointed to some possible factors that may be contributing to this pattern, the public is divided in its perceptions.
Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.
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