COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in America
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
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Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.
Most Americans see little ability for the U.S. and China to cooperate on climate change policy or combating the spread of infectious disease. A majority of Americans continue to view the China-Russia partnership as a very serious problem for the U.S.
75% of U.S. adults say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2011.
About seven-in-ten say young adults today have a harder time when it comes to saving for the future, paying for college and buying a home.
In the United States, the transience of economic status varies significantly across racial and ethnic groups and by level of education.
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted Sept. 7-12, 2021, among a national sample of 1,008 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in the United States (201 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 807 were interviewed on a mobile phone, including 553 who had no landline telephone). […]
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
Roughly one-in-five workers say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months, but only about a third of these workers think it would be easy to find one.
Adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest age group has grown markedly since about a decade ago.
Americans remain deeply divided about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the ongoing congressional investigation into what happened.
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