After dropping in 2020, teen summer employment may be poised to continue its slow comeback
Last summer, businesses trying to come back from the COVID-19 pandemic hired nearly a million more teens than in the summer of 2020.
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Last summer, businesses trying to come back from the COVID-19 pandemic hired nearly a million more teens than in the summer of 2020.
Americans are increasingly critical of the response to COVID-19 from elected officeholders and public health officials. Positive ratings of public health officials, such as those at the CDC, have fallen 10 points since August. And 60% of U.S. adults say they’ve felt confused as a result of changes to recommendations on how to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Our study analyzes 198 countries and territories and is based on policies and events in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
There are racial and ethnic differences in who takes on gig platform jobs and the negative experiences some of these workers say they face.
Nearly a quarter of countries used force to prevent religious gatherings during the pandemic; other government restrictions and social hostilities related to religion remained fairly stable.
Fewer than a third (30.8%) of U.S. teens had a paying job last summer. In 2019, 35.8% of teens worked over the summer.
81% of Black Americans consider the outbreak a major threat to public health and about half see it as a major threat to their personal health.
As the drive to inoculate more people continues, here are 10 facts about Americans and COVID-19 vaccines.
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
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