Luis Noe-Bustamante

Across 49 focus groups with Asian immigrants, daily challenges related to speaking English emerged as a common theme. Participants also shared frustration, stress and at times sadness in dealing with cultural and language barriers, and described support they received from others.

Here are some key facts about the nation’s Latino population by geography, and by characteristics like language use and origin group.

Most Asian Americans say violence against them is increasing, and most also worry at least some of the time about being threatened or attacked.

About a quarter of Latino adults say they have personally experienced discrimination or unfair treatment from other Latinos.

Latinos with darker skin color report more discrimination experiences than Latinos with lighter skin color.

Latinos say they and their loved ones have faced widespread job losses and serious illness due to COVID-19. Yet satisfaction with the nation’s direction is at highest level in a decade as most say the worst of the pandemic is behind us.

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

White eligible voters were somewhat more likely to say they were contacted than Black, Hispanic or English-speaking Asian eligible voters.

Black voters were more likely to say the 2020 election was administered very well both nationally and locally.

The number of Black registered voters in Georgia increased the most among all major racial and ethnic groups between 2016 and 2020.