Growing Share of Adults Have Heard Something About the 2020 Census Recently
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.
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Young workers likely to be hard hit as COVID-19 strikes a blow to restaurants and other service sector jobs
Nearly one-in-four U.S. workers are employed in the industries most likely to feel an immediate impact from the COVID-19 outbreak.
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More than half of U.S. households have some investment in the stock market
A majority of U.S. households have some level of investment in the stock market, mostly in the form of retirement accounts such as 401(k)s.
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New, emerging jobs and the green economy are boosting demand for analytical skills
New and emerging occupations are raising the importance of analytical skills, such as science, mathematics and programming.
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Before the coronavirus, telework was an optional benefit, mostly for the affluent few
COVID-19 may yet do what years of advocacy have failed to: Make telework a benefit available to more than a relative handful of U.S. workers.
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What to know about the 2020 census
The 2020 census began in Alaska in January, and the first numbers will be published by the end of the year.
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As coronavirus spreads, which U.S. workers have paid sick leave – and which don’t?
24% of civilian workers in the United States, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not have access to paid sick leave.
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Fast facts on the challenges Americans see for female political candidates as Warren exits 2020 race
In 2018, 59% of U.S. adults said there were too few women in high political offices, including 69% of women and 48% of men who said this.
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Far more Americans see ‘very strong’ partisan conflicts now than in the last two presidential election years
About nine-in-ten Americans say conflicts between Democrats and Republicans are strong or very strong; 71% say these conflicts are very strong.
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The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
