Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The public sees a number of contributing factors for the outbreak of violence and unrest in Baltimore last week, and most say it was the right decision to charge some Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.
Survey Report Over the past decade, there has been a pronounced age gap in American politics. Younger Americans have been the Democratic Party’s strongest supporters in both vote preferences and partisanship, while older Americans have been the most reliably Republican. The Pew Research Center’s report earlier this month on partisan identification found that 51% of […]
Race and community relations have become the focal point of tension in a series of incidents over the past year.
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The American public’s generally favorable view of labor unions hasn’t stopped, or even slowed, union membership’s long decline.
The share of wage and salary workers in the U.S. who belong to labor unions has fallen by about half since 1983. Americans express mixed views on the impact this long-term decline has had on the country.
By several measures, conservative Republicans – and conservatives more generally – are more politically active than most other segments of the population.
While most Americans continue to favor the death penalty for murder convictions, far fewer people are receiving death sentences than in years past.
As the Supreme Court’s decisions on subjects as same-sex marriage, the death penalty and the Affordable Care Act loom, half of Americans have a favorable opinion of the court, while 39% say they have an unfavorable view.
