Growing share of Americans say they want more spending on police in their area
Amid mounting public concern about violent crime in the U.S., Americans’ attitudes about police funding in their own community have shifted.
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Amid mounting public concern about violent crime in the U.S., Americans’ attitudes about police funding in their own community have shifted.
This year, at least 28 states and the District of Columbia will legally recognize Juneteenth as a public holiday.
Most Americans say Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the country, with 47% saying he has had a very positive impact. 52% say the country has made a great deal or a fair amount of progress on racial equality in the past six decades.
National polls like the Center’s come within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response rate federal surveys.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
Mental health concerns top the list of worries for parents, followed by concerns about their children being bullied. The vast majority of parents say being a parent is enjoyable and rewarding all or most of the time, but substantial shares also find it tiring and stressful.
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
Most Black adults (63%) say voting is an extremely or very effective strategy for Black progress; only 42% say the same of protesting.
Here are five facts about political content on Twitter, such as the content and nature of these posts.
Black Republicans tend to support individualistic approaches to addressing racial inequality, while Black Democrats back institutional approaches.
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