Striking findings from 2023
Here’s a look back at 2023 through some of our most striking research findings.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Here’s a look back at 2023 through some of our most striking research findings.
About eight-in-ten American adults (81%) say civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has had a positive impact on the United States.
Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn’t led to improvement for Black Americans.
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.
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
At least 110 representatives and senators in the current 117th Congress have publicly stated or otherwise confirmed that they own a gun.
On a couple of policies related to transgender people, there is some agreement among Americans, but views of other policies are more divided.
As the drive to inoculate more people continues, here are 10 facts about Americans and COVID-19 vaccines.
Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
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