Amid rollbacks of federal protections for transgender individuals, a new PRRI survey finds Americans have grown increasingly more supportive of rights for transgender people. Sixty-two percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of rights for transgender people over the last five years, compared to just 25% who say […] Read more »
Gallup First Polled on Gay Issues in ’77. What Has Changed?
Gallup first polled Americans about gays and lesbians in 1977 — when the U.S. gay rights movement was still in its infancy, and openly gay politician Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Gay rights activists at the time enjoyed momentum from the 1969 riots at […] Read more »
6 facts about U.S. moms
American motherhood has changed in many ways since Mother’s Day was first celebrated more than 100 years ago. Today’s moms are more educated than ever before. A majority of women with a young child are in the labor force, and more mothers are serving as their family’s sole or primary […] Read more »
Californians Are Divided on Charter Schools
Californians have a split opinion on charter schools, with roughly equal shares supporting and opposing them. And while most believe that parents in low-income areas should have the option of sending their children to charter schools, there is a high level of concern that charter schools take state funding away […] Read more »
School Safety and Shootings
Most parents don’t have a lot of confidence in the ability of schools to handle an active shooter situation, even as various procedures put in place to deter such a threat are seen as effective. Most Americans see schools as less safe than they were 20 years ago. Bullying, the […] Read more »
How the Trump Era Is Molding the Next Generation of Voters
… Political science research shows that a generation of voters is shaped for life by what happens during the teenage years and early 20s: whether the country is at war, how the economy is doing, whether the president is popular. Evidence in the Trump era so far shows young people […] Read more »