Support for Black Lives Matter declined after George Floyd protests, but has remained unchanged since
Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
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Currently, 55% of U.S. adults express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, unchanged from a year ago.
Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they’ve been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.
The number of federal prisoners sentenced to more than a year behind bars decreased by 5% between 2017 and the end of 2019.
55% of U.S. adults now express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, down from 67% in June.
As demonstrations continue across the country to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man killed while in Minneapolis police custody, Americans see the protests both as a reaction to Floyd’s death and an expression of frustration over longstanding issues.
More Black adults now say the country has work to do to address racial inequality; attitudes of White adults have changed little since 2019.
Some 6.2 million U.S. adults – or 2.4% of the country’s adult population – report being two or more races.
About four-in-ten Black and Asian adults say people have acted as if they were uncomfortable around them because of their race or ethnicity since the beginning of the outbreak, and similar shares say they worry that other people might be suspicious of them if they wear a mask when out in public, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
52% of US adults say it is very or somewhat important that companies and organizations make public statements about political or social issues.
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
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