Plus, majority of Americans say Trump’s public message in response to protests was wrong
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June 13, 2020
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** Amid protests, majorities across racial and ethnic groups express support for the Black Lives Matter movement ([link removed])
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Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement ([link removed]) , with 38% saying they strongly support it. Most adults say tensions between black people and police and concerns about the treatment of black people in the U.S. – in addition to anger over George Floyd’s death – have contributed a great deal to the protests.
* About two-thirds of black adults say Trump has made race relations worse ([link removed])
* Most black men say they have been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity ([link removed])
* Most Americans say they’ve had conversations about race or racial equality in the last month ([link removed])
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** Majorities of Americans say news coverage of George Floyd protests has been good, Trump’s public message wrong ([link removed])
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Americans have been following news of George Floyd’s death and the demonstrations that followed nearly as closely as they had been keeping up with news related to COVID-19, and many are discussing it frequently with others ([link removed]) . Six-in-ten U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s message in response to the protests has been wrong, while 57% say news organizations have done a “good” or “excellent” job covering the protests.
* Large partisan divide on news media’s performance and the president’s message, smaller divide on attention to events ([link removed])
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** #BlackLivesMatter surges on Twitter after George Floyd’s death ([link removed])
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As protests continue over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag ([link removed]) was used an average of just under 3.7 million times per day from May 26 to June 7. Nearly 8.8 million public tweets contained #BlackLivesMatter on May 28, making it the busiest single day for the hashtag in data going back to 2013.
* From 2018: An analysis of #BlackLivesMatter and other Twitter hashtags related to social or political issues ([link removed])
** Hispanic women, immigrants, young adults, those with less education hit hardest by COVID-19 job losses ([link removed])
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The coronavirus recession is the first of eight economic downturns in the past five decades in the U.S. in which women have lost more jobs than men ([link removed]) , with Hispanic women hit the hardest. Employment among immigrant workers has decreased more sharply than among the U.S. born.
* Unemployment rose higher in three months of COVID-19 than it did in two years of the Great Recession ([link removed])
* A majority of Americans say immigrants mostly fill jobs U.S. citizens do not want ([link removed])
** Americans’ views on World Health Organization split along partisan lines as Trump calls for U.S. to withdraw ([link removed])
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Just 46% of Americans give the WHO positive marks on its coronavirus response, though views of how well the organization has dealt with the outbreak are sharply divided along partisan lines ([link removed]) . Around six-in-ten Democrats (62%) say the organization has done at least a good job in handling the pandemic, but only 28% of Republicans say the same.
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** In Taiwan and across the region, many support closer economic ties with both U.S. and mainland China ([link removed])
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