1. Just 19% of Americans say they can trust the federal government always or most of the time.
2. The American middle class is shrinking.
3. For the first time since the 1940s, more immigrants from Mexico are leaving the U.S. than coming into the country.
4. There’s a substantial rise in the share of Americans who say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites.
5. Millennials surpassed Baby Boomers in sheer numbers to become the largest U.S. generation.
6. For news about politics and government, social media may be for the Millennial generation what local TV is for the Baby Boomer generation.
7. For American teens, it’s not just a Facebook and Instagram world.
8. People in countries with significant Muslim populations express overwhelmingly negative views of ISIS.
9. Islam will grow faster than any other major religion in the world over the next four decades.
10. Christians are declining as a share of the U.S. population, while the number of U.S. adults who do not identify with any organized religion is growing.
11. Nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the U.S. in the past fifty years, after the passage of a landmark 1965 bill that rewrote U.S. immigration policy.
12. Multiracial Americans account for 6.9% of adults, and they are growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole.
13. Scientists and the American public are often far apart when it comes to views about science-related issues.
14. A global median of 54% consider climate change a very serious problem.
15. Reporters for niche outlets now fill more seats in the Senate press gallery than do journalists who work for daily newspapers.
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