The United States and France were the two countries where the highest share of respondents were struggling to make ends meet as of September 2022. This is shown in i survey conducted in 11 countries worldwide. During 2022, rising inflation rates worldwide have seen more people struggling with the increasing costs of living. However, in China, less tha 20 percent stated that they were struggling to make ends meet.

In 2023, more than **** of North American students who were taking online courses reported being more likely to struggle with depression. Other significant struggles among students taking online courses included being negatively impacted emotionally by group projects, as well as being concerned with not making enough money to pay loans post-graduation.

This data is accompanying the article America's Continuing Struggle with Mental Illnesses: Economic Considerations by Richard Frank and Sherry Glied.

According to a survey conducted in 2022, ** percent of adults said that vocational training or other professional certification programs were definitely worth the price, more than other higher education institutions. Undergraduate education at private universities, for-profit, was perceived by adults as the least likely to be worth the price out of the other types. The student debt crisis In the United States, the amount of outstanding student loan debt has skyrocketed in the last few years, ultimately outpacing all other forms of household debt. As of the first quarter of 2024, Americans owed over **** trillion U.S. dollars in student loans, likely influenced by increasing college tuition prices at a time of rising living costs and little wage growth. By the 2020/21 academic year, the average cost of attending a four-year postsecondary institution in the U.S. reached over ****** U.S. dollars, a price which may triple for Americans attending private and non-profit schools. In that same year, the average student debt for a bachelor's degree in totaled almost ****** U.S. dollars, depicting an increase in the amount of Americans taking on larger debts to attend higher education - an agreement which ultimately leads to an even greater outstanding balance from accrued interest. Despite a three-and-a-half-year pause on monthly student loan payments during the COVID-19 pandemic which aimed to alleviate the economic burden faced by over ** million borrowers, most Americans still struggle to afford these payments. Cutting out college costs As the cost of college - and the resulting student debt - remains on the rise in the U.S., more and more university graduates have been found to be struggling financially, often having difficulty affording bills and other living expenses. Such financial hardships have also caused significant disruption to the lives of younger Americans, with a 2022 survey showing that around a ******* of Gen Z were unable to save for retirement or emergencies and had to delay homeownership and having children due to their student debt. Consequently, debates have arisen over whether the benefits of higher education still exceed the costs in the U.S., with many beginning to doubt that getting a college degree is worth the financial risk. While tuition costs remain at an all-time high, it is probable that financing a college degree may be detrimental for those Americans who have fewer resources and are unable to fund higher education without going into a significant amount of debt.

"North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. Also included are many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves and some significant fictionalized slave narratives published in English before 1920.

THE POLL

As part of Cards Against Humanity Saves America, this poll is funded for one year of monthly public opinion polls. Cards Against Humanity is asking the American people about their social and political views, what they think of the president, and their pee-pee habits.

To conduct their polls in a scientifically rigorous manner, they partnered with Survey Sampling International — a professional research firm — to contact a nationally representative sample of the American public. For the first three polls, they interrupted people’s dinners on both their cell phones and landlines, and a total of about 3,000 adults didn’t hang up immediately. They examined the data for statistically significant correlations which can be found here: [https://thepulseofthenation.com/][1]

Content

• Polls are released each month (they are still polling so this will be updated each month)
  
• Row one is the header and contains the questions
  
• Each row is one respondent's answers
  

Questions in the Sep 2017 poll:

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• Political Affiliation
• Do you approve or disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• What is your highest level of education?
• What is your race?
• What is your marital status?
• What would you say is the likelihood that your current job will be entirely performed by robots or computers within the next decade?
• Do you believe that climate change is real and caused by people, real but not caused by people, or not real at all?"
• How many Transformers movies have you seen?
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: scientists are generally honest and are serving the public good.
• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: vaccines are safe and protect children from disease.
• "How many books, if any have you read in the past year?"
• Do you believe in ghosts?
• What percentage of the federal budget would you estimate is spent on scientific research?
• "Is federal funding of scientific research too high too low or about right?"
• True or false: the earth is always farther away from the sun in the winter than in the summer.
• "If you had to choose: would you rather be smart and sad or dumb and happy?"
• Do you think it is acceptable or unacceptable to urinate in the shower?

Questions from Oct 2017 poll

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• Political Affiliation
• Do you approve or disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• What is your highest level of education?
• What is your race?
• From what you have heard or seen do you mostly agree or mostly disagree with the beliefs of White Nationalists?
• If you had to guess what percentage of Republicans would say that they mostly agree with the beliefs of White Nationalists?
• Would you say that you love America?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Democrats would say that they love America?
• Do you think that government policies should help those who are poor and struggling in America?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Republicans would say yes to that question?
• Do you think that most white people in America are racist?
• If you had to guess, what percentage of Democrats would say yes to that question?
• Have you lost any friendships or other relationships as a result of the 2016 presidential election?
• Do you think it is likely or unlikely that there will be a Civil War in the United States within the next decade?
• Have you ever gone hunting?
• Have you ever eaten a kale salad?
• If Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ran for president as a candidate for your political party, would you vote for him?
• Who would you prefer as president of the United States, Darth Vader or Donald Trump?

Questions from Nov 2017 poll

• Income
• Gender
• Age
• Age Range
• In politics today, do you consider yourself a Democrat, a Republican or Independent?
• Would you say you are liberal, conservative, or moderate?
• What is your highest level of education? (High school or less, Some college, College degree, Graduate degree)
• What is your race? (white, black, latino, asian, other)
• Do you live in a city, suburb, or small town?
• Do you approve, disapprove, or neither approve nor disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
• Do you think federal funding for welfare programs in America should be increased, decreased, or kept the same?
• Do you think poor black people are more likely to benefit from welfare programs than poor white people?
• Do you think poor people in cities are more likely to benefit from welfare programs than poor people in small towns?
• If you had to choose, would you rather live in a more equal society or a more unequal society?

Acknowledgements

These polls are from Cards Against Humanity Saves America and the raw data can be found here: [https://thepulse...

Muslim Americans constitute one of the United States' most vulnerable minority groups, facing frequent discrimination from both the public and the government. Despite this vulnerability, few studies evaluate interventions for reducing prejudice against Muslim Americans. Building from an insightful literature on the sources of prejudice against Muslim Americans, this paper tests whether attitudes can be improved with information countering misperceptions of the community as particularly foreign, threatening, and disloyal to the United States. The experimental treatment modestly improved attitudes, including among some subgroups predisposed to prejudice against Muslim Americans. However, the treatment struggled to change policy views, and it demonstrated some vulnerability to social desirability bias and priming on terrorism threats. The findings suggest that information campaigns addressing misperceptions can be of some use for reducing prejudice, but primarily in less politicized contexts.

As of 2023, ************** of North American undergraduate students reported struggling more with burnout in the post-pandemic period. Other significant mental health concerns included COVID-related issues, ADHD, depression, and anxiety, each concerning at least ** percent of students in North America.

Prevalence and mortality risk are nearing twice the national average in many Arkansas counties. Arkansas also has the third highest concentration of CHF death rates of all 50 states. Furthermore, care delivery systems (i.e., hospitals, and nurses) are struggling to balance the needs of CHF patients against the variability of unplanned critical care needs in the ongoing, large-scale communicable disease outbreaks. However, the routine, preventive, and urgent care needs of AAs with CHF can not be deprioritized because of health system inelasticity. If so, health disparities in AAs will be further exacerbated. Since the "one-size-fits-all" approach to care delivery (i.e., the same level of resources provided to all patients) is clinically ineffective and wasteful, the efficient allocation of clinical resources (e.g., nurses) fuels the need for more innovative, evidence-based and nurse-led approaches to stratifying risks among AA patients.

GapMaps Panorama Segmentation Data from Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) is built on over three decades of experience in the creation and use of geodemographic segmentation systems in the United States and Canada. Building on and integrating the existing suite of AGS modeling and analytical tools, GapMaps Panorama Segmentation Data creates actionable perspective on an increasingly complex and rapidly churning demographic landscape.

GapMaps Segmentation Data consists of sixty eight segments currently paired with the industry leading GfK MRI survey, providing the essential linkage between neighborhood demographics and consumer preferences and attitudes.

The segments include: 01 One Percenters 02 Peak Performers 03 Second City Moguls 04 Sprawl Success 05 Transitioning Affluent Families 06 Best of Both Worlds 07 Upscale Diversity 08 Living the Dream 09 Successful Urban Refugees 10 Emerging Leaders 11 Affluent Newcomers 12 Mainstream Established Suburbs 13 Cowboy Country 14 American Playgrounds 15 Comfortable Retirement 16 Spacious Suburbs 17 New American Dreams 18 Small Town Middle Managers 19 Outer Suburban Affluence 20 Rugged Individualists 21 New Suburban Style 22 Up and Coming Suburban Diversity 23 Enduring Heartland 24 Isolated Hispanic Neighborhoods 25 Hipsters and Geeks 26 High Density Diversity 27 Young Coastal Technocrats 28 Asian-Hispanic Fusion 29 Big Apple Dreamers 30 True Grit 31 Working Hispania 32 Struggling Singles 33 Nor'Easters 34 Midwestern Comforts 35 Generational Dreams 36 Olde New England 37 Faded Industrial Dreams 38 Failing Prospects 39 Second City Beginnings 40 Beltway Commuters 41 Garden Variety Suburbia 42 Rising Fortunes 43 Classic Interstate Suburbia 44 Pacific Second City 45 Northern Blues 46 Recessive Singles 47 Simply Southern 48 Tex-Mex 49 Sierra Siesta 50 Great Plains, Great Struggles 51 Boots and Brews 52 Great Open Country 53 Classic Dixie 54 Off the Beaten Path 55 Hollows and Hills 56 Gospel and Guns 57 Cap and Gown 58 Marking Time 59 Hispanic Working Poor 60 Bordertown Blues 61 Communal Living 62 Living Here in Allentown 63 Southern Small City Blues 64 Struggling Southerners 65 Forgotten Towns 66 Post Industrial Trauma 67 Starting Out 68 Rust Belt Poverty

In 2023, there were a total of seven million families living below the poverty line in the United States. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing, and shelter.

Near the end of the Civil War, enslaved people fled plantations to Union troop encampments. Following the departure of the Union soldiers, those formerly enslaved people chose to remain behind and settle in an area named Freedom Hill. Freedom Hill was incorporated in 1885 in Edgecombe County, and the town name was later changed to Princeville in recognition of Turner Prince, a resident who has been involved in building much of the community.The town of Princeville has been predominately occupied by African-Americans and has struggled with socioeconomic challenges as a result of racism. The town has faced racism, bigotry, and attempts by white neighbors to erase its existence. The harsh history of enslavement and White supremacy adds to the significance of this community.

In December 2024, 11 percent of survey respondents said that the most important problem facing the United States was the high cost of living and inflation. Another 20percent said that the government and poor leadership was the most serious concern for the nation.

Kingman Park is a neighborhood in northeast Washington developed in the years between World Wars I & II, during the height of segregation when black Washingtonians struggled to find decent housing. African Americans were largely shut out of new housing developments in and around the city by racially restrictive covenants.

In early 2002, the National Arts Journalism Program invited art critics at general-interest news publications around the country to complete an online questionnaire about their backgrounds, educational credentials, work habits, tastes and opinions on issues concerning art in America today. The survey's 169 critics -- drawn from 96 daily newspapers, 34 alternative weeklies and 3 national news magazines -- write for a combined audience of approximately 60 million readers. The findings suggest that although art critics have carved out important roles at many publications, criticism is struggling to keep up with the swift evolution of the art world.

Graph and download economic data for Federal Government; Corporate Bonds Issued by Commercial Banking Under TARP; Asset, Transactions (BOGZ1FU313063763Q) from Q4 1946 to Q1 2025 about TARP, issues, transactions, bonds, federal, assets, banks, depository institutions, and USA.

In 2024, Colima in Mexico ranked as the world's most dangerous city with a homicide rate of 140 per 100,000 inhabitants. Seven of the 10 cities with the highest murder rates worldwide are found in Mexico. The list does not include countries where war and conflict exist. Latin America dominates murder statistics Except for Mandela Bay, all the cities on the list are found in Latin America. Latin America also dominate the list of the world's most dangerous countries. Violence in Latin America is caused in great part by drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and gang wars. Crime in South Africa Mandela Bay in South Africa is the only city outside Latin America among the 10 most dangerous cities worldwide. The country is struggling with extremely high levels of inequality, and is struggling with high levels of crime and power outages, harming the country's economy and driving more people into unemployment and poverty.

Using an original demographically representative survey, we estimate the determinants of public support for a set of supportive and punitive policies to combat the opioid epidemic among a sample of 2,131 Americans. Our findings indicate that individuals who attribute blame for the epidemic to the personal choices of individuals, conservatives, and those high in racial resentment are consistently more likely to support punitive policies to combat the opioid epidemic and less likely to favor policies to support individuals with substance use disorders. Individuals who have a personal connection to someone struggling with opioid use disorder favor policies to support such individuals but have nuanced attitudes towards punitive policies. Importantly, we find overwhelming support for all supportive policies except supervised injection sites, while roughly 50 percent of our sample supported the set of punitive policy choices. Our research represents a significant step forward toward understanding public opinion about the opioid epidemic and policies to combat it.

Graph and download economic data for Federal Government; Corporate Bonds Issued by Commercial Banking Under TARP; Asset, Transactions (BOGZ1FU313063763A) from 1946 to 2024 about TARP, issues, transactions, bonds, federal, assets, banks, depository institutions, and USA.

Somalis in North America offer a window into the remarkable potential that can be realized by refugees/immigrants despite experiences of severe adversity as well as the challenges some subgroups encounter when adjusting to life in a new country. Somalia has endured one of the longest and most brutal wars of the past 30 years. This enduring conflict has led to millions of Somalis being dispersed as refugees across the globe. As refugees with limited resources, many Somalis in North America are resettled in poor urban neighborhoods where they are visibly different, not only because of race or ethnicity but also because of dress, especially for women who wear a Muslim head covering. In addition, the community has been plagued by violence. While the number of Somali American youth joining these groups are small and while the majority of Somali Americans are law-abiding citizens, the terrorist groups' ability to recruit these youth and to convince some of them to engage in violent acts is concerning, not only to policymakers and law enforcement, but also to the Somali community, which fears losing more youth to violence or having the community's reputation sullied by being associated with terrorism. While some of the social and cultural factors affecting Somalis are unique to that ethnic group, they also share experiences common to many immigrants, navigating identity development and duality as they move between home and host cultures, contending with discrimination as religious, racial and ethnic minorities, and striving to achieve their dreams while struggling to gain socioeconomic stability. Thus, understanding their developmental trajectories may inform the understanding of other immigrant and refugee groups as well. No valid and reliable measurement for risk for violent extremism exists; there is no single profile or set of risk factors that can accurately determine who is most at risk for engaging in violent extremist acts. The study did not attempt to determine who is most at risk. Rather, the researchers sought to identify broad attitudes that would indicate a general openness to, or rejection of, the use of violence or illegal actions in support of a political cause. The qualitative interviews feature experiences of formal (e.g. police) and informal (e.g. community) institutions over the past year. Examples of interview prompts include questions related to social bonds with family and community, and interactions with police.