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

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time.

53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.

49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.

Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women have left the labor force than men.

While views of and experiences with police vary substantially across demographic groups, there is support for a number of police reforms.

Amid rising inequality, many Americans feel that the U.S. economic system is unfair and generally favors powerful special interests.

Americans relocated less during the COVID-19 outbreak, moving from one residence to another in 2020 at the lowest rate in more than 70 years.

Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.

The reasons Americans without children don't expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.