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Race & Ethnicity
09.12.2022
Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Government
The COVID-19 pandemic, social justice movements, and economic uncertainty have all had an impact on Americans’ trust in government. In 2017 and 2021, PRRI asked American adults a series of questions…
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Law & Criminal Justice
09.01.2022
Policing, Protests, Surveillance, and White Racial Identity
As a part of the PRRI Public Fellows program, our cohort of scholars who study white supremacy and racial justice created and deployed a survey via YouGov based on our shared research interests in rac…
With the exception of white evangelical Protestants, majorities of most religious and demographic groups believe that immigrants strengthen the United States and support having a pathway to citizenshi…
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Race & Ethnicity
08.25.2022
Most Americans Think Women Face a Lot of Discrimination
On August 26 of each year, Americans celebrate Women’s Equality Day, established in 1973 to commemorate the date the 19th Amendment passed, guaranteeing American women the right to vote. Women’s E…
On August 24, 2022, President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt for low- and middle-income Americans, and an additional $10,000 in debt forgiveness for students who re…
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Law & Criminal Justice
08.12.2022
Black Americans’ Skepticism Toward the Death Penalty
Recent PRRI polling shows that Black Americans are significantly more skeptical of the death penalty’s fairness with regards to race than other racial groups. According to the PRRI 2022 Social Netwo…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
07.29.2022
Which Women Most Likely to Favor Abortion Restrictions?
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision on June 24, 2022, to reverse the constitutional right of women to obtain an abortion, which had been in place since 1973, the vast majority of wo…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
07.22.2022
Americans Are Not Really Paying Attention to the Jan. 6 Hearings
As the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol continues to hold public hearings highlighting the role former President Donald Trump played in th…
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LGBTQ
07.22.2022
Who are LGBT Muslims? Challenging Myths and Misnomers
During his 2016 Republican National Convention nomination acceptance speech, former President Donald Trump stated: “Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered…
Our current political polarization can feel new, but it has a long cultural history. Two dominant visions of American identity have historically been in tension and at times outright competition with…
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