Financial and health impacts of COVID-19 vary widely by race and ethnicity
The outbreak has altered life in the U.S. in many ways, but in key respects it has affected black and Hispanic Americans more than others.
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The outbreak has altered life in the U.S. in many ways, but in key respects it has affected black and Hispanic Americans more than others.
California has more immigrant eligible voters (5.5 million) than any other state, followed by New York, Florida, Texas and New Jersey.
Since 2000, the size of the immigrant electorate has nearly doubled. More than 23 million U.S. immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
Most Latino registered voters (71%) say they want government to be more involved in solving the nation’s problems.
Latinos are expected for the first time to be the nation’s largest racial or ethnicity minority in a U.S. presidential election.
Many South Africans are dissatisfied with the state of their democracy. Confidence in some civic institutions declined from 1990 to 2013.
Many Indonesians are satisfied with the state of their democracy, and more describe the country’s current and future economic situation as good.
Money sent by immigrants to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa reached a record $41 billion in 2017.
Nearly 14% of the U.S. population is foreign-born. That’s the highest share of foreign-born people in the country since 1910, but it’s far from the highest in the world.
There were a record 43.7 million immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016, making up 13.5% of the nation’s population.
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