Support for Christian prayer in U.S. public schools varies widely by state
Just over half of U.S. adults (52%) say they favor allowing public school teachers to lead their classes in prayers that refer to Jesus.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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1. Problems teens see in their schools
We asked U.S. teens how common a variety of problems are among students at their school. Anxiety and depression tops the list, with 30% of teens saying it’s extremely or very common at their school. About one-in-five teens (22%) say bullying is extremely or very common at their school. A similar share (19%) say the […]
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Appendix A: Account classification instruction prompt
You are an AI assistant trained to help categorize social media accounts.You will be given a description of an account and some of its recent posts. Here is a detailed codebook of the information you will be asked to provide: # CODEBOOK: ##############################################################– IND-ORG: Whether the account belongs to an individual or an organization. (CHOOSE […]
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The Gender Gap in Teen Experiences
Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and report different experiences at school, though they have many of the same goals in life.
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1. Consumption and sources of local political news
Older Americans are more likely to follow local government news. People often get this news from friends, family and local outlets.
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What Makes People Proud of Their Country?
From diversity in Indonesia to food in France, people in 25 countries share in their own words what makes them proud.
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Among Black adults, those with higher incomes are most likely to say they are happy
Black adults in upper-income families are about twice as likely as those in lower-income families to say they are extremely or very happy.
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Fewer than half of Black Americans say the news often covers the issues that are important to them
40% of Black Americans say that the issues and events most important to them are often covered, and similar shares of Asian (38%) and Hispanic (37%) adults say the same.
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Wikipedia at 25: What the data tells us
As of December 2025, there are over 66 million articles across all languages on Wikipedia. Around 7 million articles are in English.
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5. Podcasts and news
The vast majority of top-ranked podcasts do not focus primarily on news and current events: 15% of the podcasts examined in this study are focused on news. That said, news is a common part of the podcast experience for the majority of listeners – two-thirds of U.S. podcast listeners said in the 2022 survey that […]
