For some governments, the debt incurred on COVID-19 relief will add to the considerable red ink already on their ledgers before the pandemic.
Most Americans say economic problems resulting from the coronavirus outbreak will last for at least six months.
As the U.S. confronts the coronavirus outbreak, Americans continue to rate a wide range of federal agencies favorably, including two at the forefront of dealing with COVID-19.
Overall readiness to respond to the census has inched up since earlier this year, even as some key hard-to-count groups remain less enthusiastic than others.
Majorities express confidence in how the CDC and state and local officials are responding to the outbreak.
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U.S. military veterans and their families have consistently had higher standards of living than non-veterans over the past 40 years.
For many veterans who served in combat, their experiences strengthened them personally but made the transition to civilian life difficult.
Americans express overwhelmingly favorable opinions of federal agencies like the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government.
The first full fiscal year of the Trump administration saw large increases in the number of people arrested and criminally prosecuted for immigration offenses.
