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As part of a survey about aging and caregiving in the U.S., we asked Americans how they feel about certain measures that might help people who are providing care for an aging family member. Most U.S. adults say they would favor the federal government: Fewer than half say they would strongly favor each of these […]
35% of U.S. parents with children younger than 18 say they are extremely or very worried that their children might be bullied at some point.
While 38% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Parler, just 1% of Americans regularly get news there.
Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by these accounts from June 1 to 30, 2022. (For more details on how this data collection was conducted, see the methodology.) These prominent […]
In 2022, governments and/or social actors harassed religious groups in 192 countries and territories out of the 198 analyzed – two more than 2021.
Financially, advertiser expenditures for the news programs of the three major networks have declined substantially since 2020.
Almost all U.S. adults live in range of a religious radio station, most commonly Christian radio. Stations tend to broadcast either mostly music or mostly talk.
Here’s a look back at the past year and some of its biggest news events through 15 of our most striking research findings.
About one-in-five adults in the U.S. today (18%) are ages 65 and older. To understand how these older Americans are aging and the factors associated with aging well, we asked them a series of questions about how things are going in their lives and how they spend their time. These questions are part of a […]
A large share of Americans (88%) – including about nine-in-ten each among White, Black, Republican and Democratic adults – say they have personally seen videos of police violence against Black people in the news, on social media or in some other way. In general, Americans’ views are mixed as to whether these videos being widely […]
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