Roughly 318,000 immigrants have this status after fleeing dangerous conditions in their countries. Learn more on the status for the largest origin groups now protected under TPS.
Kristen Bialik
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Apart from its political makeup and policy objectives, the new Congress differs from prior ones in other ways, including its demographics.
Generally better educated and more racially and ethnically diverse, Millennials have also been slower to marry and form their own households than previous generations of young adults.
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.
Here is a look at public opinion on important issues facing the United States, from Americans' views of trade to the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
There were nearly 467,000 apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2018. Family members accounted for about a third of those apprehensions.
There were more than 14,000 certified organic farms in the United States in 2016, a 56% increase from 2011.
Pew Research Center uses benchmarking questions to ensure our surveys are accurate. Learn why and how we use these questions.
While the share of Americans who say they are lonely all or most of the time is small, the share rises significantly for some groups.
Today, more than 40 million people living in the U.S. were born in another country, accounting for about one-fifth of the world’s migrants in 2016.
