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ReligionAugust 29, 2019

Views on abortion, 1995-2019 As of 2019, public support for legal abortion remains as high as it has been in two decades of polling. Currently, 61% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 38% say it should be illegal in all or most cases. Views on abortion, 2019: A detailed look […]

Media & NewsJuly 9, 2019

The State of the News Media fact sheets use a range of different methodologies to study the health of the U.S. news industry, including custom analysis of news audience behavior, secondary analysis of industry data and direct reporting to solicit information unavailable elsewhere.

HispanicJune 12, 2019

In 2017, an estimated 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007. Explore trends in the unauthorized immigrant population for U.S. states, as well as for birth countries and regions.

Pew Research CenterApril 30, 2019

Giving a share of one’s income to the church has been a part of European tradition for centuries. Today, several countries continue to collect a “church tax” on behalf of officially recognized religious organizations, in some cases levying the tax on all registered members.

Pew Research CenterMarch 28, 2019

The public’s views of Donald Trump have changed little over the course of his presidency – and this is the case for opinions about whether Trump has done enough to distance himself from white nationalist groups.

ReligionFebruary 6, 2019

Measuring public opinion on evolution has never been an easy task for survey researchers.

ReligionJanuary 3, 2019

The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than the prior Congress.

U.S. PoliticsDecember 17, 2018

Voters approached the 2018 midterm elections with some trepidation about the voting process and many had concerns that U.S. election systems may be hacked. After the election, however, most say it was “very easy” to vote and confidence in election security has increased.

U.S. PoliticsNovember 29, 2018

The public’s leading long-range foreign policy goals for the United States are focused on security, including economic security.

ReligionNovember 20, 2018

Family is the most common source of meaning in America, but economic, religious and political divides shape where people find meaning in other aspects of life.

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