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Fewer than half of Black adults say they have a three-month emergency fund, and some have taken multiple jobs to make ends meet.

51% of working parents of children younger than 12 say it has been at least somewhat difficult to handle child care responsibilities recently.

In recent weeks, protests in India over Muslim headscarves in schools have gained international attention.

64% of members of Congress mentioned Black History Month on Facebook or Twitter in February 2021, up from just 29% in 2015.

The share of Americans who say they often get news from a podcast is quite small, at just 7%; 16% of adults say they sometimes do.

Nearly four-in-ten Latinos (39%) say they worry that they, a family member or someone close to them could be deported.

There is no public consensus on whether greater social acceptance of transgender people is good or bad for society.

About half of Black Americans (51%) say they are very or extremely informed about the history of Black people in the U.S.

While Biden’s rating is still low among White Christians, positive ratings also fell among Black Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated.

Americans remain deeply divided about the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and the ongoing congressional investigation into what happened.