Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins | Pew Research …
Jan 17, 2019 · In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone ...
What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts
Nov 9, 2021 · The Border Patrol reported 1,659,206 encounters with migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year, narrowly exceeding the prior highs of 1,643,679 in 2000 and 1,615,844 in 1986. The large number of encounters in fiscal 2021 dwarfed the total during the last major wave of migration at the southwest border, which occurred in fiscal 2019.
Are you in the U.S. middle class? Try our income calculator | Pew ...
Jul 23, 2020 · About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Roughly three-in-ten (29%) were in lower-income households and 19% were in upper-income households. Our calculator below, updated with 2018 data, lets you find out which group you are in – first …
Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology - Pew Research Center
Nov 9, 2021 · Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics. Republicans and Democrats agree on very little – and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little in common.. Yet the gulf that separates Republicans and Democrats sometimes obscures the divisions and diversity of views that exist within both …
Key facts about U.S. immigration policies and Biden’s proposed …
Jan 11, 2022 · In fiscal 2019, the U.S. government awarded more than 139,000 employment-based green cards to foreign workers and their families. The Biden administration’s proposed legislation could boost the number of employment-based green cards, which are capped at about 140,000 per year. The proposal would allow the use of unused visa slots from ...
Immigrants in America: Key Charts and Facts | Pew Research Center
Aug 20, 2020 · Chart. The foreign-born population residing in the U.S. reached a record 44.8 million, or 13.7% of the U.S. population, in 2018. This immigrant population has more than quadrupled since the 1960s, when the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act took effect. Though growth has begun to slow in recent years, the number of immigrants living in the ...
How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history
Sep 30, 2015 · D’Vera Cohn is a former senior writer/editor focusing on immigration and demographics at Pew Research Center. The United States began regulating immigration soon after it won independence from Great Britain, and the laws since enacted have reflected the politics and migrant flows of the times. We looked at key immigration laws from 1790 to 2014.
10 facts about the death penalty in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
Jul 19, 2021 · Phone polls have shown a long-term decline in public support for the death penalty. In phone surveys conducted by Pew Research Center between 1996 and 2020, the share of U.S. adults who favor the death penalty fell from 78% to 52%, while the share of Americans expressing opposition rose from 18% to 44%. Phone surveys conducted by Gallup found a ...
Key facts about race and marriage in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
Jun 12, 2017 · The most dramatic increase has occurred among black newlyweds, whose intermarriage rate more than tripled from 5% in 1980 to 18% in 2015. Among whites, the rate rose from 4% in 1980 to 11% in 2015. The most common racial or ethnic pairing among newlywed intermarried couples is one Hispanic and one white spouse (42%).
Web History Timeline | Pew Research Center
Mar 11, 2014 · 1996. 77% of online users send or receive e-mail at least once every few weeks, up from 65% in 1995. Nokia releases the Nokia 9000 Communicator, the first cellphone with internet capabilities. HoTMaiL launches as one of the world’s first Webmail services, its name a reference to the HTML internet language used to build webpages.
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