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Pew Research: Deportation Disapproval Hits New High

A growing majority of Americans believe the Trump administration is going too far in deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in October 2025. 53% of U.S. adults now say the administration is doing “too much” on deportations — up from 44% in March. While disapproval is particularly high among Democrats (86%), concern has also increased among Republicans, especially Hispanic Republicans (47%, up from 28%).

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Pew Research: Most Americans Say the Government Should Ensure Health Care Coverage

A strong majority of Americans (66%) believe the federal government has a responsibility to ensure all Americans have health care coverage, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in November 2025. While views have remained steady since last year, support for this idea has increased modestly from 62% in 2021 — largely due to shifting opinions among lower-income Republicans.

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Pew Research: Trust in Government Near Historic Lows

Trust in the federal government has plummeted to just 17%, according to a new Pew Research Center report — among the lowest levels since the question was first asked in 1958. Only 2% of Americans say they trust the government “just about always,” and 15% say “most of the time.” Back in 1958, 73% felt that way.

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Pew Research: What the Data Says About Food Stamps in the U.S.

As millions of Americans anxiously awaited their November SNAP benefits during the 43-day federal shutdown, Pew Research released a comprehensive look at the food assistance program — and the new policies that threaten it. The shutdown added even more chaos: legal confusion and patchwork state-level fixes delayed payments for families already living paycheck to paycheck. While the new funding bill keeps SNAP afloat through late 2026, many of the deeper, damaging changes remain.

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Pew Research: Latino Voices Are Shaping America's Future

The Latino population in the U.S. has nearly doubled since 2000—rising from 35.3 million to 68 million in just two decades. Today, one in five Americans is Latino, making this group the second-largest racial or ethnic community in the country. And they’ve fueled more than half of all U.S. population growth since 2000.

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Pew Research: Prices and Housing Top America’s Economic Worries

Most Americans still don’t like what they see in the economy: only 26% call conditions excellent or good, while 74% say they’re fair or poor. That topline hasn’t budged much in three years—but the parties have flipped positions. 44% of Republicans now rate the economy positively (their highest since Trump’s first term), compared with just 10% of Democrats.

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Pew Research: TikTok Is Becoming America’s Newsroom

TikTok isn’t just for dance challenges anymore — it’s becoming America’s newsroom. A new Pew study finds one in five U.S. adults now regularly get news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020. In fact, no other social media platform Pew has studied has experienced faster growth in news consumption during that time. Among adults under 30, that share has soared to 43%. Even a quarter of 30-to-49-year-olds now use TikTok as a news source. More than half of TikTok’s users overall say they consume news there — rivaling Facebook, X, and Truth Social.

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