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Roughly six-in-ten (62%) of those with a high school degree or less say that access to religious education for children played an important role in their choice of congregation, compared with about half (51%) of college-educated adults.
By contrast, both less affluent and less educated church shoppers are more likely to value the potential social connections, religious education and community service offered by a church.
That is down from about half (49%) of the public in surveys conducted in 1994 and 2004.
Over the past twenty years, the number of Americans in the “tails” of this ideological distribution has doubled from 10% to 21%.
Meanwhile, the center has shrunk: 39% currently take a roughly equal number of liberal and conservative positions.
To chart the progression of ideological thinking, responses to 10 political values questions asked on multiple Pew Research surveys since 1994 have been combined to create a measure of ideological consistency.
When it comes to the bilateral economic relationship, Americans, by a more than two-to-one margin, say economic ties are bad (68%) rather than good (30%).
And a quarter say economic relations are very bad.
In both 2017 and 2018, Facebook posts by members of Congress received around 5 million more “angry” reactions than “love” reactions.
But love reactions overtook anger in 2019, and lawmakers have received roughly 2 million more love than anger reactions in the first seven months of 2020.
In the wake of the 2016 presidential campaign, Facebook users were more likely to press the “anger” button than the “love” button in response to lawmakers’ posts on the platform.
But a new Pew Research Center analysis finds that this trend has shifted in recent years, and that lawmakers received more love than anger reactions to their posts in 2019 and 2020.
Internal consumption of travel and tourism in Antigua and Barbuda was at its highest in 2019.
The chart shows that Internal consumption of travel and tourism in Antigua and Barbuda was stable from 2010 to approximately 2017.
The level for consumption in this period was around 900 million US Dollars per yearFrom 2017 to 2018 the level of consumption rose to around 1100 US Dollars.
However, there are signs that the public would like to hear more about the violence in Darfur.
Two foreign policy stories rounded out the news index for the week.
Interest in U.S.-Iranian relations was higher in February of this year when tensions were mounting between the two nations.
Only 12% of the public followed news about Darfur very closely and 2% listed this as their most closely followed story.
The historic talks between the United States and Iran regarding the situation in Iraq were followed very closely by 19% of the public.
Darfur was back in the news last week as President Bush announced that the U.S. would impose new sanctions against Sudan.
Only 10% say Darfur has gotten too much coverage and 27% say it has gotten the right amount of coverage.
When asked whether news organizations are giving too much, too little, or the right amount of coverage to ethnic violence in Darfur, a plurality of the public (49%), says the issue is getting too little coverage.
Only 3% said this was the story they followed most closely.
There has been a slight decline but not a big one.
The birth rate from 2008 to 2018 has stayed relatively stable in Somalia.
The chart marks the government revenue in Italy from 2014 to 2024, the years 2019-2024 are marled with an asterix.
The government revenue and spending gradually increases over the years from below 800 billion euros to approximately 900 billion euros,.
The revenue bar chart shows an increase in government revenue in the years from 2014 to 2024, from jist under 800 billion euros in 2014, to a projected 900 billion in 2024.
Eric Holder, Obama’s pick for attorney general, was 2nd at 2%.
The speculation about whether Hillary Clinton would be named secretary of state made her the lead newsmaker in 3% of the stories for the week.
(Obama, who dominated all others, was the top newsmaker in 8% of all the stories last week).
Three of the top four newsmakers of the week, not including Obama, were tied to the president-elect.
Joe Lieberman, who faced retribution for supporting McCain but ultimately got to keep his committee chairmanship in the Senate, was 4th.
Hamilton, Lewis is by far the highest amount of championship points during this time period, he has almost 4000 while the nearest to him is Vettel, Sebastian with 3000.
In order, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, and Fernando Alonso have the most number of championships from 1950-2021.
Lewis Hamilton has scored the most points and is the number 1 driver.
Only two drivers, Hamilton and Vettel, have scored above 2000 points in the period 1950 to 2021.
At that time, 73% approved of the re-establishment of U.S diplomatic relations with Cuba, and 72% favored an end to the trade embargo.
These views are similar to attitudes about U.S. relations with Cuba in July 2015, following the decision to renew diplomatic ties.
Today, Republicans are 15 points less likely to say the U.S. stands above; 37% say it does, while 55% say the U.S. is one of the greatest countries, along with some others.
Currently, about a quarter of Democrats and independents say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world (down from about a third in 2011).
The decline in the view that the U.S. is the greatest country in the world has occurred across most demographic and political groups, but it has been particularly acute among Republicans.
In 2011, 52% of Republicans said the U.S. stood above all other countries in the world, while 43% said it was one of the greatest countries in the world, along with some others.
Democrats and independents continue to be less likely than Republicans to view the U.S. as exceptional, and fewer say this today than did so in 2011.
By contrast, smaller religious groups may not have been harassed in as many countries simply because they are not present in as many countries.
For instance, because of their dense concentration in a small number of countries, 99% of Jews and Hindus lived in nations where members of their groups were harassed.
And despite being one of the most geographically dispersed religious groups, 97% of Muslims lived in countries where harassment of Muslims occurred in 2015.
(By comparison, 78% of Christians lived in places where Christians were harassed.)
The population remained relatively stable between 2016 and 2021 and then declined to 2014 levels between 2021 and mid 2022.
The population of Lebanon increased from a little over 5.5 million in 2014 to 6 million in 2016.
The chart runs to end of 2022 predicting a continuing slow decline in the population.
Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries.
Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far more mixed in their sentiments, with many saying their media do not deliver.
And, in many countries, there are sharp political differences in views of the media – with the largest gap among Americans.
A decade earlier, immigration-related offenses accounted for 28% of all federal arrests.
Half (50%) of the 165,265 total arrests made by the federal government in fiscal 2014 – the most recent year for which statistics are available – were for immigration-related offenses, such as crossing the border illegally or smuggling others into the United States.
Arrests for property crimes, including fraud and embezzlement, declined from 11% to 8%.
And arrests for weapon offenses, such as possession of an unregistered firearm, fell from 7% to 4%.
At the same time, arrests for drug crimes fell from 23% of the total in 2004 to 14% in 2014.
Federal law enforcement agencies are making more arrests for immigration-related offenses and fewer arrests for other types of offenses – including drug, property and gun crimes – than they were a decade ago, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of new data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Those for supervision violations, such as probation or parole infractions, fell from 17% to 14%.
Partisan gaps are more modest when it comes to these platforms’ effectiveness at influencing policy or changing people’s minds.
A similar share (77%) believes these platforms are at least somewhat effective for creating sustained social movements.
Overall, eight-in-ten Americans say social media platforms are very (31%) or somewhat (49%) effective for raising public awareness about political or social issues, according to the survey of U.S. adults conducted July 13-19.
Democrats and independents who lean Democratic are more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say social media sites are at least somewhat effective as a way to raise public awareness about political or social issues (86% vs. 74%), create sustained social movements (82% vs. 73%) and get elected officials to pay attention to issues (71% vs. 59%).
The GOP’s image has improved.
The share that views the Republican Party favorably is up 7 percentage points since October and is 14 points higher than it was in April of 2016.
In the aftermath of the election, the Republican Party’s image is more positive than it has been in years.
Currently, about equal shares view the GOP favorably (47%) and unfavorably (49%).
Roughly half of adults who have never used a dating or app (52%) believe that these platforms are a not too or not at all safe way to meet others, compared with 29% of those who have online dated.
Americans who have never used a dating site or app are particularly skeptical about the safety of online dating.
More voters also were satisfied with the candidates in the 2004 (66%), 2000 (64%) and 1996 (61%) campaigns.
In September 2008, far more voters (72%) said they were satisfied with the presidential choices that year.
This finding is broadly consistent with other public polls and our previous research on climate change attitudes.
Americans are deeply divided politically on climate change and energy issues.
Seventy-one percent of Democrats and independents who lean to the Democratic Party say Earth is getting warmer because of human activity, compared with 27% of Republicans and independents who lean to the Republican Party.
Less invasive procedures like skin or lip injections are also rare; just 2% of U.S. adults report having had this done.
Plastic surgery has since expanded from treatments aimed mainly at repairing damage to include elective changes like liposuction or tummy tucks.
While it’s now a multibillion-dollar industry, just 4% of Americans say they have ever had elective cosmetic surgery, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in spring 2016.
Registrations passed the 100,000 mark in 2018.
This grew to approximately 90,000 in 2008 before falling steadily to roughly 2004 levels by 2010.
The only dip in registrations during this period was in 2010.
The number of registrations is consistently over 80,000 each year.
The number of registrations then steadily grew to roughly 100,000 before plateauing and remaining steady from about 2016 onwards.
In 2004, the total number of registered vehicles was approximately 85,000.
The total number of buses and coaches registered in France has increased overall between 2004 and 2019.
Those who had seen or heard not much or nothing at all are least likely to say they would be comfortable or likely to engage with all three contact tracing steps explored here (“speak, share, quarantine”).
Awareness of contact tracing and perceptions of how often scams happen are linked to the steps people say they would be likely or comfortable to take in the process.
Some seven-in-ten U.S. adults had seen or heard a great deal or some about contact tracing at the time this survey was taken in July, whereas three-in-ten (29%) had heard nothing at all or not too much about this process.
Today, family-based immigration – referred to by some as “chain migration” – is the most common way people gain green cards, in recent years accounting for about two-thirds of the more than 1 million people who receive them annually.
This path to a green card, the EB-5 program, has drawn criticism from some lawmakers.
President Donald Trump said his legislation, when proposed, would prioritize family-based green cards to immediate family members.
The Trump administration’s points-based plan would increase the number of green cards granted due to having certain skills.
The program allows someone to receive a green card if they already have a spouse, child, sibling or parent living in the country with U.S. citizenship or, in some cases, a green card.
In fiscal 2017, 748,746 people received family-based U.S. lawful permanent residence.
This share could decline to about one-third under the president’s proposal.
Immigrants from countries with large numbers of applicants often wait for years to receive a green card because a single country can account for no more than 7% of all green cards issued annually.
The new system would eliminate a green card for immigrant investors who put money into commercial U.S. enterprises that are intended to create jobs or benefit the economy.
In fiscal 2017, 137,855 employment-based green cards were awarded to foreign workers and their families.
(See “How Today’s Economy is Affecting Young Adults.”)
Fully 71% of all adults say it’s harder for today’s young people to pay for college than it was for their parents’ generation.
Paying for college is also viewed as a greater challenge today than it was in the past.
The combined challenges of paying for college, and finding a job after graduation, has made times tougher for today’s young adults.
Most resettled refugees in the U.S. were from countries in Africa (51%) or Asia (27%).
People from Middle Eastern countries – mostly Syria and Iraq – accounted for 49% of resettled refugees in Australia, 55% in Canada and 85% in the UK.
By contrast, fewer than 1% of refugees resettled in the U.S. in 2018 were from the Middle East, in part due to shifting regional caps.
In 2018, nearly half (47%) of the world’s resettled refugees were from Middle Eastern countries, while almost one-third (32%) were from Africa.
A plurality in eight of 10 countries say France plays as important a role as it did 10 years ago.
A median of 25% across the 10 European countries polled say France plays a more important role in the world.
Views that France’s global position has remained the same are widespread.
In the Senate, lawmakers spend an average 317 calendar days in session during a two-year congressional term, according to the Center’s analysis.
Older adults tend to be fairly politically active on social networking sites to the extent that they use them, but are relatively unlikely to use these sites in the first place.
Political engagement on social networking sites is especially commonplace among the youngest Americans, as two-thirds (67%) of all 18-24 year olds (and nearly three quarters of those young adults who use social networking sites) engaged in some sort of social network-related political activity in the 12 months preceding our survey.
Indeed, the youngest American adults are more likely to engage in political behaviors on social networking sites than in any other venue.
Social networking sites (SNS) stand in contrast to these other venues.
So, although nearly six in ten SNS-using seniors are politically active on these sites, that works out to just 13% of all Americans in the 65+ age group.
The majority of leaders won an average of 110 games.
There are 3 stand out leaders who have each won over 190 games, Cy Young, Roger Clemens and Tim Wakenfield.
The 2017 estimate includes 444,000 asylum seekers who were waiting for a decision on their case at the end of that year.
An estimated 1.0 million to 1.2 million unauthorized immigrants lived in Germany in 2017, up from 500,000 to 600,000 in 2014, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on the latest available data.
And this discontent is shared by those who would like to see the Hindu-nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lead the next Indian government, those who prefer the current governing coalition led by the left-of-center Indian National Congress (Congress) party and those who favor some other party to lead.
More than twice as many Indians are dissatisfied as satisfied with the way things are going in the country (70% vs. 29%).
A growing share of Hispanic households speaks only English at home.
U.S. Census Bureau projections show that by 2020, one-third of Hispanics ages 5 and older will speak only English at home, up from 25% today.
Overall, the number of Hispanics (31 million) that speaks English has been growing, as is the share that speaks only English at home.
In thinking about financial regulation, as many say they worry that the government will go too far in regulating financial markets, making it harder for the economy to grow, as say they worry that the government will not go far enough, leaving the country at risk of another financial crisis.
The public views tougher regulations on financial institutions as an important priority for Congress, but far more want Congress to take action on the job situation and energy policy.
Opinions among Republicans and Republican leaners are more divided: 53% say hard work has more to do with why a person is rich, while 45% say it is because they have more advantages.
In views of why a person is poor, 55% of Republicans say it is more because they have faced obstacles most others have not, while 42% say it is more because they have not worked as hard as most others.
The quits rate is a good indicator of labor-market confidence, since people are more willing to leave their jobs when they’re confident they can find a better one.
The quits rate — the number people who voluntarily leave their jobs as a percentage of total employment — has improved somewhat from its 2009-10 lows, but at 1.7% is still well below pre-recession levels (typically 2% or higher).
Just 10% say the Republican Party has more concern than the Democratic Party for the Hispanic community, unchanged since 2012.
Instead, the share of Hispanic registered voters who say there is no difference between the two parties is up, to 35% today from 23% in 2012.
But Republican Party gains among Hispanic registered voters in terms of party identification do not extend to Hispanic voters’ views of the party.
The line then starts to rise to just over 20 deaths after 2000.
The number of deaths decreases from just over 120 in 1880 to approximately 3 deaths around 1960.
Looking at sites that share at least 25% of their news users with another site, audience overlap most commonly exists among news users of smaller sites who also visit Facebook and/or YouTube for news, the two sites with the most news users overall.
Four of the sites have considerable overlap with Twitter: Roughly a third or more of news users of Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn and Reddit also get news on Twitter.
However, news users of Instagram and Snapchat have considerable overlap with each other, and at least a third of WhatsApp news users also get news from both of these sites, even though a relatively small share of the population uses these sites for news.
Only a small portion (less than 25%) of any of these sites’ news users also gets news from Reddit, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or Tumblr.
About half or more news users of each of the other sites studied also get news on Facebook, while about a quarter or more overlap on YouTube.
Finer differences emerge in which sites share news users.
Beyond Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, there is less widespread overlap in news use with the other sites.
It decreased gradually until 2016 where it is slowly increasing.
Life insurance first peaked in 2000 then sharply decreasing until 2001.
It then increased from 2002 until 2008 where it peaked.
Just 5% followed news about the upcoming summer Olympics in Beijing very closely and even fewer (2%) called it their most closely followed story of the week.
Outside of the campaign, the economy and Iraq, Americans showed little interest in last week’s other news stories.
Interest was somewhat higher in news about a government proposal to overhaul national financial regulations; 17% of the public followed the story very closely, while 3% called it their top story.
By contrast, Clinton’s supporters are just as likely to say she has a mix of liberal and conservative views (42%) as to say her positions are predominantly liberal (42%).
Just 9% say she’s liberal on almost all issues.
About six-in-ten voters (58%) in our latest American Trends Panel survey say Clinton’s views are liberal on most or almost all issues, while nearly three-in-ten (28%) say she has a mix of liberal and conservative views.
About three-quarters of Trump supporters (78%) say Clinton has predominantly liberal views, including 59% who say she is liberal on almost all issues.
Yet there is a large gap in how Trump and Clinton supporters describe her views.
Supporters and opponents see Clinton’s political views differently.
College enrollment among low-income students has generally increased over the past several decades, according to data from the 2013 Digest of Educational Statistics (an arm of the federal Education Department).
That’s down from the record-high 58.4% in 2007, and just half a percentage point higher than the rate in 1993.
(NCES defines “low income” as the bottom 20% of all family incomes, “high income” as the top 20%, and “middle income” as the 60% in between.)
But enrollment rates among middle- and high-income students also have risen, to 64.7% and 80.7%, respectively, in 2012.
In 2012, the most recent year for which NCES figures are available, 50.9% of recent low-income high school completers (a category that includes both graduates and people who completed an equivalency degree and who are ages 16 to 24) were enrolled in a 2- or 4-year college.
But the Great Recession and weak recovery have eroded the gains of recent years, and middle- and upper-income students remain far more likely to go to college.
Looking at it another way, low-income students now are enrolled at about the same rate as middle-income students were in the mid-1980s.
Retail sales from 1995-2015 have increased over the years and has had a steady incline.
There was a drop in sales in 2009 to just under 600 billion.
However, Clinton’s share of the Latino vote was lower than in 2012, when 71% of Latinos voted to re-elect Obama.
(It is important to note that the national exit poll is a survey with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for the national result.)
Hillary Clinton won 66% of Latino voters on Election Day, according to updated National Election Pool exit poll data, a level of Democratic support similar to 2008, when 67% of Hispanics backed Barack Obama.
While Clinton underperformed among Latinos compared with 2012, Republican Donald Trump won 28% of the Latino vote, a similar share to 2012, when Mitt Romney won 27%, and to 2008, when John McCain won 31%, according to exit polls.
The U.S. survey did not ask about banks and financial institutions, specifically.
But it found that just 45% of American adults had confidence in business leaders to work in the best interests of the public.
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A record 8% of households with minor children in the U.S. are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census records.
The census bureau data shows the number of single father households increased from less than 300,000 in 1960 to more than 2.6 million in 2011.
Compared with fathers who head households with two married parents, single dads are younger, less educated, less financially well-off and less likely to be white.
Senegalese Muslims are the most worried (75% concerned), but at least six-in-ten Muslims in Lebanon, Tunisia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories are also concerned.
More Jordanian Muslims (54%) see Islamic extremism as a threat than do not (45%).
Majorities in most of the Muslim publics surveyed express concerns about Islamic extremism in their country.