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A majority of U.S. adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases; 37% think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
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Here is a look at the most recent available data about abortion from sources other than public opinion surveys.
Nearly half of Americans (47%) say that the United States’ influence in the world has been getting weaker in recent years.
U.S. adults disagree over whether legal restrictions on abortion are an effective way to reduce the number of abortions in the U.S.
Only 13% of Americans think the U.S. garners more respect internationally now than in the past, while 19% think it’s as respected as ever.
Last summer, businesses trying to come back from the COVID-19 pandemic hired nearly a million more teens than in the summer of 2020.
At the state level, governments vary considerably in how they commemorate Juneteenth, which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.
How do Republicans who support legal abortion and Democrats who oppose it differ from their fellow partisans? One difference involves religion.
Seven-in-ten U.S. teens say they support the Black Lives Matter movement. By comparison, 56% of U.S. adults said this in a separate survey.
In nearly all of the 44 advanced economies we analyzed, consumer prices have risen substantially since pre-pandemic times.
Most of our research on the U.S. news environment has been from the viewpoint of the public, but this time we surveyed journalists themselves.
