Federal Government

For many veterans who served in combat, their experiences strengthened them personally but made the transition to civilian life difficult.

Americans express overwhelmingly favorable opinions of federal agencies like the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government.

The first full fiscal year of the Trump administration saw large increases in the number of people arrested and criminally prosecuted for immigration offenses.

Members of Congress and technology leaders are rated lower in empathy, transparency and ethics; public gives higher scores to military leaders, public school principals and police officers

Veterans of prime working age generally fare at least as well as non-veterans in the U.S. job market, though there are differences in the work they do.

Today’s active duty military is smaller and more racially and ethnically diverse than in previous generations. More women are officers.

What it means to be a military veteran in the United States is being shaped by a new generation of service members. About one-in-five veterans today served on active duty after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Their collective experiences – from deployment to combat to the transition back to civilian life – are markedly different from those who served in previous eras.

Partisans have different levels of confidence when it comes to the type of personnel who hold government jobs – presidential appointees or career employees.

Around six-in-ten Democrats support increased spending for scientific research, compared with 40% of Republicans, a gap that has grown over time.

Neither party has an edge in favorability among the public