Economy & Work

Despite the growth of commercial sports betting, the most common way that Americans bet on sports is with friends or family.

PayPal is used by a majority of U.S. adults (57%). Smaller shares report ever using Venmo (38%), Zelle (36%) or Cash App (26%).

Black Americans support significant reforms to or complete overhauls of several U.S. institutions to ensure fair treatment. Yet even as they assess inequality and ideas about progress, many are pessimistic about whether society and institutions will change in ways that would reduce racism.

While the economy remains the dominant issue in this fall’s midterm elections, the issue of abortion has increased markedly in importance. More voters continue to view their midterm vote as an expression of opposition to Joe Biden than support for him. But across both parties, more voters now say Biden is not much of a factor in their vote.

16% of U.S. adults say they have ever invested in, traded or used a cryptocurrency such as bitcoin or ether.

A median of 70% of adults across 19 countries say children in their country will be worse off than their parents financially when they grow up.

41% of U.S. journalists who are employed at least part time at a news outlet say they would join a union if it were available to them.

Roughly one-in-five workers say they are very or somewhat likely to look for a new job in the next six months, but only about a third of these workers think it would be easy to find one.

Joe Biden’s political standing is at the lowest point of his presidency. Yet Biden is hardly the only focal point of the public’s political discontent: Americans express unfavorable views of both major parties and a range of leading Republican and Democratic political figures, including Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.

Large majorities in most of the 19 countries surveyed have negative views of China, but relatively few say bilateral relations are bad.