Katherine Schaeffer

Here's what our surveys have found about how Americans across the age spectrum have experienced the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid the back-and-forth between Twitter and President Trump, here are facts about Americans’ attitudes toward social media companies.

The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.

World War II service members’ numbers have dwindled from around 939,000 veterans in 2015 to about 300,000 in 2020.

The pandemic has forced a shift to online learning, a transition that has been challenging for the nearly 7 million disabled students in the U.S.

While 43% of Americans say the new coronavirus most likely came about naturally, nearly three-in-ten say it most likely was created in a lab.

About nine-in-ten Americans say conflicts between Democrats and Republicans are strong or very strong; 71% say these conflicts are very strong.

Over the past 50 years, the highest-earning 20% of U.S. households have steadily brought in a larger share of the country’s total income.

Among the changes: Smartphones and social media became the norm, church attendance fell, and same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana gained support.

In a growing number of U.S. counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation's changing demographics.