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    3. Shared: Home-sharing services

    Home-sharing services are perhaps the classic example of a “sharing economy” platform. These services provide a platform for matching people who are looking for a place to stay for a period of time with other people who have some sort of space available that they are willing to rent. Typically this space is a home, […]

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    2. Views of race relations

    There’s no consensus among American adults about the state of race relations in the U.S.: 48% say race relations are generally bad, and 44% say they are generally good. Similarly, when asked about the amount of attention paid to race and racial issues in the country these days, about as many say there is too […]

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    2. On-demand: Ride-hailing apps

    15% of American adults have used ride-hailing apps, but one-third have never heard of these services Despite their cultural prominence in media and technology circles, just 15% of American adults indicate that they have ever used a ride-hailing service such as Uber or Lyft. Half of all Americans (51%) are familiar with these services but […]

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    African American News Media: Fact Sheet

    Last updated June 2016 Black-oriented news media – one of the long-standing minority news genres in the U.S. – showed little substantive change over the 2014 to 2015 period. The overall number of newspapers aimed at this population – primarily community weeklies – remained steady, but there was some evidence of audience decline, a pattern […]

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    5. Other shared and on-demand services

    In addition to asking a series of in-depth questions about home-sharing services, ride-hailing apps and crowdfunding sites, the survey also measured how many Americans have used a number of other shared and on-demand services. This chapter of the report examines the usage and demographics of these other commercial online platforms. Several of these services are […]

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    Behind the Badge

    Majorities of police officers say that recent high-profile encounters between black citizens and police have made their jobs riskier and left many officers reluctant to fully carry out some of their duties.

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