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Striking findings from 2022
Social media generally seen as good thing for democracy – but not in U.S.
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- Striking findings from 2022
- Americans have become more likely to say they don’t use cash for purchases in a typical week
- U.S. Christians projected to fall below 50% of population if recent trends continue
- 77% of Black Americans – compared with 18% of White Americans – support reparations for descendants of enslaved people
- A growing share of TikTok’s adult users say they regularly get news on the site
- In both parties, six-in-ten or more who faced certain weather events say climate change played a role
- Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Americans much more likely to consider Russia an enemy
- Majority of adults say abortion should be legal in some cases, illegal in others
- Partisan gap in views of Supreme Court now wider than at any point in more than three decades
- In U.S., young adults are the most likely to be transgender or nonbinary
- U.S. journalists more likely than the public to say all sides don’t always deserve equal coverage
- Drug overdose death rate among Black men in the U.S. more than tripled between 2015 and 2020
- Nearly half of teens now say they use the internet ‘almost constantly’
- Share of aggregate income held by U.S. middle class has plunged since 1970
- Growing shares of both Republicans and Democrats say members of the other party are more immoral, dishonest, closed-minded than other Americans
- Social media generally seen as good thing for democracy – but not in U.S.