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Public Opinion on Abortion
Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project 930d 23 tweets
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PewResearch FactTank The annual March for Life in Washington, DC is today. See our interactives that track public opinion on abortion from 1995 to 2019 3d
What Americans Know About the Holocaust
Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project 5d 5 tweets
Most U.S. adults know what the Holocaust was and approximately when it happened, but fewer than half can correctly answer multiple-choice questions about the number of Jews who were murdered or the way Adolf Hitler came to power, according to a new...
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PewResearch FactTank Fewer than half of Americans (43%) know Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany through a democratic political process. A similar share (45%) know that approximately 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. 5d
Liberals make up the largest share of Democratic voters, but their growth has slowed in recent years
Pew Research Center 9d 8 tweets
About half of Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters describe their own political views as liberal.
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PewResearch FactTank While the ideological composition of the Democratic coalition is not much different than in 2016 – when liberals constituted 45% of Democratic voters – liberals make up a larger share than they did in earlier presidential election years #2020election 9d
Views on Race in America 2019
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 293d 28 tweets
Most Americans (65%) – including majorities across racial and ethnic groups – say it has become more common for people to express racist or racially insensitive views since Trump was elected president.
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PewResearch FactTank 56% of Americans said in a survey in Jan-Feb 2019 that President Trump has made race relations worse; just 15% say he has made progress toward improving race relations #MLKDay 10d
1. Views of the major problems facing the country Views of major problems facing the U.S.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press 40d 3 tweets
When asked to consider the major problems facing the country, the affordability of health care and drug addiction top the American public’s list. Other
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PewResearch FactTank When asked to consider the major problems facing the country, the affordability of health care and drug addiction top the American public’s list in a September survey #DemocraticDebate 12d
Many churchgoers in U.S. don't know the political leanings of their clergy
Pew Research Center 13d 2 tweets
Among U.S. adults who attend services a few times a year or more, 45% say they’re not sure whether their clergy are Democrats or Republicans.
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PewResearch FactTank 76% of U.S. adults say churches and houses of worship should not come out in favor of candidates during elections. Protestants in the historically black tradition and evangelical Protestants are more inclined than other religious groups to say this is OK. 13d
Views on reducing U.S. economic inequality
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 13d 1 tweets
Most Americans who say there’s too much economic inequality in the country think the federal government and big business should play a role in reducing
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PewResearch FactTank Republicans and Democrats largely disagree on how effective different measures would be at reducing economic inequality 13d
How people around the world see the U.S. and Donald Trump in 10 charts
Pew Research Center 19d 5 tweets
Views of the U.S. are favorable across many of the 33 countries we surveyed in 2019, although confidence in U.S. President Donald Trump is low.
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PewResearch FactTank Confidence in world leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs, based on our spring-summer Global Attitudes Survey: 🇩🇪 Angela Merkel 46% 🇫🇷 mmanuel Macron 41% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin 33% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump 29% 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping 28% 18d
A Week in the Life of Popular YouTube Channels
Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech 18d 1 tweets
The media landscape was upended more than a decade ago when the video-sharing site YouTube was launched. The volume and variety of content posted on the
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PewResearch FactTank A single person watching YouTube videos for eight hours a day with no breaks or days off would need more than 16 years to watch all the content posted by just the most popular channels on the platform during a single week. 18d
About four-in-ten U.S. adults say forms should offer more than two gender options
Pew Research Center 39d 6 tweets
Views differ sharply by party and age when it comes to whether forms or online profiles should include gender options other than “man” and “woman.”
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PewResearch FactTank In 2019, at least seven states started offering a third gender option on driver’s licenses for people who don’t identify as male or female. At least four more plan to do so this year. More: 19d
More Americans now see ‘very high’ preventive health benefits from measles vaccine
Pew Research Center 20d 6 tweets
As in 2016, 88% of U.S. adults say its benefits outweigh the risks. And the share who consider its preventive benefits to be “very high” rose by 11 points to 56%.
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PewResearch FactTank 82% of U.S. adults support required measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination for public school attendance, while 16% feel parents should be able to decide whether to vaccinate their children even if that might create health risks for others 20d
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PewResearch FactTank 88% of U.S. adults say the benefits of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine outweigh the risks – the same share as in 2016.The share who consider its preventive health benefits to be “very high” has grown by 11 percentage points during that time 20d
Globally, women are younger than their male partners, more likely to age alone
Pew Research Center 23d 5 tweets
Across 130 countries studied, Muslims have the widest spousal age gap on average, followed by Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, the religiously unaffiliated and Jews.
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PewResearch FactTank NEW: Globally, women are younger than their male partners, more likely to age alone 23d
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PewResearch FactTank On average, women are younger than their husbands or male cohabiting partners in each of the 130 countries and territories we analyzed in a recent study. 23d
From Ireland to Germany to Italy to Mexico: How America’s Source of Immigrants Has Changed in the States, 1850 - 2013
PewResearch Hispanic - Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project 26d 1 tweets
Explore the top countries of origin for immigrants in each state from 1850 to 2013.
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PewResearch FactTank This GIF that accompanied our 2015 post on "How America’s Source of Immigrants Has Changed in the States, 1850 - 2013" was one of our most popular 26d
Americans' views on the current economy
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 46d 10 tweets
Three-in-four Republicans give the economy positive ratings, while a majority of Democrats rate it negatively. But within parties, views differ widely by income.
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PewResearch FactTank "The stock market is closing in on its best year in two decades" reports . Our September survey found 68% of upper income Americans held stocks, bonds or mutual funds compared with 38% of middle-income Americans and 14% of low-income Americans. 28d
Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries
Nature 32d 17 tweets
Analyses of the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017 reveal inequalities across countries as well as within populations.
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PewResearch FactTank "Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries" - from 31d
Evangelical approval of Trump remains high, but other religious groups are less supportive
Pew Research Center 315d 15 tweets
Roughly seven-in-ten white evangelical Protestants approve of Trump's presidential job performance. Other religious groups are more divided.
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PewResearch FactTank Our polling as of last January found that white evangelicals’ support for President Trump has been consistently high 34d
Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians
Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project 563d 26 tweets
The gap in the standard of living between Asians near the top and the bottom of the income ladder nearly doubled from 1970 to 2016. Amid rising inequality overall, Asians displaced blacks as the most economically divided major U.S. racial or...
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PewResearch FactTank Today, income inequality in the U.S. is greatest among Asians. 36d
More U.S. homeowners say they are considering home solar panels
Pew Research Center 39d 3 tweets
Some 46% of U.S. homeowners say they have given serious thought to adding home solar panels in the past year, up from 40% in 2016.
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PewResearch FactTank About half of homeowners in the South Atlantic region of the U.S. (51%) say they are considering installing solar panels at home, up 20 percentage points from 2016. 37d
Clinton's impeachment barely dented his public support, and it turned off many Americans
Pew Research Center 39d 1 tweets
The circumstances were very different during the Clinton impeachment crisis, and so was U.S. public opinion about the push for impeachment.
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PewResearch FactTank Trending today on : "Clinton’s impeachment barely dented his public support, and it turned off many Americans" 39d
Among 41 countries, only U.S. lacks paid parental leave
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Despite parents' shifting responsibilities, the U.S. is the only one of 41 nations that does not mandate any paid leave for new parents.
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PewResearch FactTank The U.S. is the only country among 41 nations analyzed that does not mandate any paid leave for new parents, according to data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). 39d
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PewResearch FactTank The U.S. is the only country among 41 nations analyzed that does not mandate any paid leave for new parents, according to data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 30d