Short Reads

While the CDC has pointed to some possible factors that may be contributing to this pattern, the public is divided in its perceptions.

One-in-ten U.S. adults say they have taken part in citizen science in the past year, and 26% say they have ever done so.

59% of Americans think news organizations do not understand people like them, while a minority – 37% – say they do feel understood.

Republicans ages 18 to 39 are more likely than their GOP elders to think humans have a large role in climate change.

Americans who recently protested are more likely to live in an urban area and to identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party.

The share of Americans voting by mail has risen in recent presidential election cycles, but there is variation from one state to another.

65% of U.S. adults say that they have personally worn a mask in stores or other businesses all or most of the time in the past month.

Remittances – money sent by migrants to their home countries – are projected to fall by a record 20% this year.

When it comes to abortion, members of Congress are starkly divided by party. Yet the partisan divide among Americans themselves is less stark.

91% of Democrats favor granting legal status to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children; 54% of Republicans say the same.