Rising shares of U.S. adults know someone who is transgender or goes by gender-neutral pronouns
Americans’ comfort levels with using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to someone have remained static since 2017.
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Americans’ comfort levels with using gender-neutral pronouns to refer to someone have remained static since 2017.
A majority of women say they have experienced harassing behavior from someone they went on a date with.
About a year since the coronavirus recession began, there are some signs of improvement in the U.S. labor market, and Americans are feeling somewhat better about their personal finances than they were early in the pandemic.
Many single-and-looking people wouldn’t want to date someone who voted for the opposing party’s candidate in the 2016 presidential election.
Most Americans (65%) – including majorities across racial and ethnic groups – say it has become more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views since Trump was elected president.
Only 23% say they have emergency funds that would last them three months.
As the 2020 census gets underway, most U.S. adults are aware of it and are ready to respond, but many do not know what it asks or how to participate.
Overall readiness to respond to the census has inched up since earlier this year, even as some key hard-to-count groups remain less enthusiastic than others.
Many Americans say the country hasn’t gone far enough in giving black people equal rights with whites. Most believe slavery continues to impact black people’s status.
A majority of LGB adults report that they have used an online dating site or app, roughly twice the share of straight adults who say the same.
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