Education

The challenges of a COVID-19 economy are clear for 2020 college graduates, who have experienced downturns in employment and labor force participation.

Nearly half of Black adults say the economic impact of the pandemic will make achieving their financial goals harder in the long term.

Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.

The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.

More Americans now say the possibility that students will fall behind academically without in-person instruction should be given a lot of consideration.

A majority of workers in only four out of nine industries studied say that the responsibilities of their job can be done from home.

The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.

Some of Americans’ pandemic adaptations have relied on technology, including adults working from home and students learning online.

A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.

As school districts across the United States continue to grapple with the best way to provide instruction amid the coronavirus outbreak, most parents of students in K-12 schools express concern about their children falling behind in school because of disruptions caused by the pandemic.