At least four-in-ten U.S. adults have faced high levels of psychological distress during COVID-19 pandemic
58% of those ages 18 to 29 have experienced high levels of psychological distress at least once between March 2020 and September 2022.
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58% of those ages 18 to 29 have experienced high levels of psychological distress at least once between March 2020 and September 2022.
Black voters are more confident in Biden than Trump when it comes to having the qualities needed to serve another term.
Public K-12 teachers express low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future of U.S. education.
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.
Black Americans support significant reforms to or complete overhauls of several U.S. institutions to ensure fair treatment. Yet even as they assess inequality and ideas about progress, many are pessimistic about whether society and institutions will change in ways that would reduce racism.
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 1.6% of U.S. adults are transgender or nonbinary – that is, their gender is different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Most favor protecting trans people from discrimination, but fewer support policies related to medical care for gender transitions; many are uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.
Nearly one-in-five U.S. adults say they have had a physical reaction at least some or a little of the time when thinking about the outbreak.
Depression is rising among American teenagers, and teen girls are particularly likely to have had recent depressive episodes.
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