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61% of U.S. adults say having close friends is extremely or very important for people to live a fulfilling life.
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61% of U.S. adults say having close friends is extremely or very important for people to live a fulfilling life.
At least half of Black podcast listeners regularly listen to podcasts about entertainment and pop culture; self-help and relationships; comedy; and money and finance.
Here are some key takeaways for how the public engaged with Team USA on Twitter during the Tokyo Olympics.
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.
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
Here is how the average adult Twitter user in the U.S. tweeted about the news in 2021, as well as how these patterns have changed since 2015.
More Americans now prefer to get local news online, while fewer turn to TV or print. And most say local news outlets are important to their community.
More than half of U.S. adults (56%) say they talk about science news with others at least a few times a month.
Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 percentage points from spring 2022.
Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.
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