What the data says about Medicaid
The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The joint federal-state health insurance program covered 71.4 million Americans as of January 2025.
How close do people feel to others around the world? How much do they want their countries involved in international affairs? How do people’s experiences with travel and feelings of international connectedness relate to their views about the world? A recent 24-nation survey explores these questions.
In the vast majority of the 24 countries surveyed, politicians are the most common subject of proposals to improve democracy. Some call for different types of people to enter the political arena, while others simply want their current politicians to perform better. Many want their leaders to pay closer attention to and respond more appropriately […]
There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.
In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses.
Government restrictions on religion, by region Globally, the median score on the Government Restrictions Index (GRI) fell from 2.9 in 2019, which was a peak level for the study, to 2.8 in 2020. Regionally, the median GRI score declined slightly in the Middle East-North Africa, remained constant in the Americas, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, and […]
As the debate over the future of Title 42 unfolds, here are answers to key questions about the immigration policy.
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.
Both the number and share of new college graduates with a bachelor’s degree in education have decreased over the last few decades.
The Census Bureau estimates there were 65.2 million Hispanics in the U.S. as of July 2023, a new high. They made up more than 19% of the nation’s population.
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