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Our surveys find:
🎬 83% of Americans say they ever use streaming services
🤑 44% of streaming users say services they use are worth the cost

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January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Younger Americans are less likely than others to support an active role for the U.S. in world affairs. https://pewrsr.ch/4qert0g
December 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And people who switched into a new religion give different reasons. For example, 48% say feeling “called to a new faith” and 45% say the religion in which they grew up did not meet their spiritual needs.
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Many who leave say:

- They stopped believing in the religion’s teachings (46%)
- It wasn’t important in their life (38%)
- They just gradually drifted away (38%)
December 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Lifelong Jews most commonly mention a somewhat different set of reasons for why they are Jewish.

- 60% say they like the traditions
- 57% cite liking the sense of community
- 53% say because it’s their family religion
- 50% say because it’s what they’re familiar with

December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
ChatGPT (59%) is by far the most widely used chatbot and the only one we measured that a majority of teens use.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
64% of teens say they ever use an AI chatbot, including 16% who do so several times a day or almost constantly.
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
YouTube is not only widely used, but it’s also the platform the most teens visit on a daily basis. Roughly three-quarters of teens say they use it every day.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
8 in 10 Latinos say the Trump administration’s policies have been harmful to Hispanics. Those figures are up from 2019, late in Trump’s first term, among Latino Republicans and Democrats alike. www.pewresearch.org/...
December 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage: https://pewrsr.ch/495emca
December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Americans are following the news less closely than they used to: https://pewrsr.ch/4iOmCAw
December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
U.S. Latinos are now more worried about being asked to prove their legal status during their daily activities (43% today vs. 31% in March), and roughly 1 in 5 have changed their daily routines because of it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
About 1 in 5 Latinos personally know someone who’s been deported or detained in the last year. A majority also say immigration arrests or raids have occurred in their local area in the past six months.

Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/...
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Amid heightened deportation efforts during Donald Trump’s second term, about half of U.S. Hispanics worry they or someone close to them might be deported, and 43% worry about being asked to prove their legal status during their daily activities.
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Recent polling shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Key measures of religiousness are holding steady in the United States, continuing a period of relative stability that began about five years ago. www.pewresearch.org/...
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Roughly 1 in 3 Latinos say they’ve struggled to afford utilities, food, medical care and housing.

When it comes to emergency or rainy-day funds, 1-in-3 Latinos say they have enough saved for three months of expenses.

Full analysis here: www.pewresearch.org/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Overall, Latinos’ views of their own personal finances have remained mostly negative, but this also differs by party.

🔵 Latino Democrats’ views are essentially unchanged from last year
🔴 Latino Republicans’ ratings of their finances have improved
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Since the election, we’ve asked a follow-up question a few times on which economic concerns are most pressing. Consumer prices and the cost of housing remain top economic concerns.
December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A year later, most Latinos still rate the economy negatively, but partisan patterns have reversed.

🔴 40% of Latino Republicans have positive views, up considerably from 19% in 2024
🔵 11% of Latino Democrats say the same, down from 30% in 2024
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For the first time in nearly two decades of our surveys of U.S. Latinos, most say they think the situation of Hispanics in this country has worsened in the last year. And about a third of Latinos say they have considered leaving the country in the last six months. www.pewresearch.org/...
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Far more young people have switched out of Catholicism than in. Overall, 12% of today’s youngest adults have switched out of Catholicism. Meanwhile, 1% of adults ages 18 to 24 have switched in.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Overall, 1% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 24 now identify as Orthodox Christians after having been raised in another religion or with no religion. An equal share of these adults has left Orthodoxy.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some recent reports suggest that young people are increasingly turning to traditional forms of Christianity, such as Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism. But our data shows that Christianity loses far more people than it gains through religious switching.
December 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
For example, young men are now about as religious as young women. That’s a notable change from the past.

But this narrowing gender gap isn’t because American young men are more religious than young men used to be. Young men and young women are less religious today than in 2014 and 2007.
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM