As coronavirus spreads, which U.S. workers have paid sick leave – and which don’t?

One of the key pieces of advice offered by health experts, as COVID-19 continues its spread throughout the United States, is simple: If you feel sick, stay home. For working people, though, that’s a lot easier to do if you have access to paid sick leave – which 24% of U.S. civilian workers, or roughly 33.6 million people, do not.

• Amid coronavirus threat, Americans generally have a high level of trust in medical doctors

Explore our latest Election News Pathways data

We’ve just released the data from the latest survey in our Election News Pathways project, covering subjects from Donald Trump’s impeachment to perceptions of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Our interactive data tool makes it easy to explore the results through multiple lenses, including demographics and partisanship.

• 5 key findings from the new Pathways survey, from impeachment to the Democratic race
• Black and white Democrats differ in their media diets, assessments of primaries
• Democrats see Biden and Sanders as very different ideologically

Americans' views on Trump, religion and politics

White evangelical Protestants see the president as advancing their interests and feel their side generally has been winning recently on political matters important to them. But even among this strongly supportive constituency, most do not view Donald Trump as a very religious, honest or morally upstanding person (though many say he is somewhat religious, fairly honest or fairly morally upstanding).

• About a third in U.S. see God’s hand in presidential elections, but fewer say God picks winners based on policies

Americans and Germans differ in their views of each other and the world

Three years into a turbulent period of American-German relations, there continues to be a wide divergence in views of bilateral relations and security policy between the publics of both countries. On the core question of relations between the United States and Germany, three-quarters of Americans say the relationship is in good shape, but only 34% of Germans agree.

A majority of Americans continue to favor replacing Electoral College with a nationwide popular vote

Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) say the Constitution should be amended so the presidential candidate who receives the most votes nationwide wins, while 40% prefer to keep the current system in which the candidate who receives the most Electoral College votes wins the election.

• From 2016: Why Electoral College wins are bigger than popular vote victories

What to know about the 2020 census

Once a decade, the federal government asks everyone living in the United States to be counted in a census. The 2020 count began in Alaska in January, and the first numbers will be published by the end of the year. As the national enumeration moves forward, here are the basics about this year’s census.

• Sign up for our five-lesson email mini-course on the census to learn more about what it is, why and how is it taken, what's new for 2020 and more

Fast facts on how Greeks see migrants as Greece-Turkey border crisis deepens

Older people are more likely to live alone in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world

About one-in-four Americans say they’ve had fewer advantages in life than others their age

From our research