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2 months ago | 
kff.org | Audrey Kearney |Grace Sparks |Liz Hamel |Julian Montalvo III
As Senate committee hearings begin for President Donald Trump’s nominees for key health positions, the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds that public trust in government health agencies has fallen over the past 18 months, continuing a decline that began during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
kff.org | Shannon Schumacher |Liz Hamel |Samantha Artiga |Latoya Hill
IntroductionThere are about 1.5 million people in the U.S. who identify as Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (NHPI) alone or in combination with another race or ethnicity, but their experiences are often missing from analyses or conflated with Asian American adults.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
kff.org | Ashley Kirzinger |Liz Hamel |Grace Sparks |Isabelle Valdes
The outcome of the 2024 presidential election is settled with Republicans regaining control of the U.S. house and controlling the U.S. Senate, with President-elect Donald Trump set to begin a second term in January 2025. With most votes counted and races called, this analysis takes a deeper dive into the role that health care issues played in the 2024 race. In the first presidential election since the overturning of Roe v.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
kff.org | Shannon Schumacher |Alex Montero |Liz Hamel
As part of KFF’s ongoing effort to identify and track misinformation in the U.S., the latest KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll examines claims about immigrants that have circulated during the 2024 presidential election cycle. While immigration has been a frequent topic of the campaign, the political discourse surrounding immigrants often overlooks the perspectives and experiences of immigrants themselves.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
kff.org | Liz Hamel |Akash Pillai |Samantha Artiga |Robin Rudowitz
Homelessness in the U.S. is a serious problem that touches the lives of millions of individuals and families across urban, suburban, and rural areas. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12% increase from 2022. The links between homelessness and health are complex.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
kff.org | Marley Presiado |Alex Montero |Lunna Lopes |Liz Hamel
The latest KFF Health Misinformation Tracking Poll finds that about two-thirds of adults say they have used or interacted with artificial intelligence (AI), though a smaller share – about one-third – say they do so at least a few times a week. Most adults (56%) are not confident that they can tell the difference between what is true and what is false when it comes to information from AI chatbots.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
kff.org | Shannon Schumacher |Liz Hamel |Samantha Artiga |Drishti Pillai
In recent years, there have been growing concerns about children’s mental health and well-being, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic and with a rise in awareness and exposure to racism and discrimination amid instances of racial injustice, including the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and growth in anti-Asian sentiment.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
kff.org | Ashley Kirzinger |Isabelle Valdes |Liz Hamel
Long before President Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris has been the administration’s voice on abortion rights. As part of her “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour earlier this spring, V.P. Harris was the first sitting U.S. vice president1 to visit an abortion provider and she has consistently criticized Republican efforts to limit access to reproductive health care.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
kff.org | Audrey Kearney |Isabelle Valdes |Ashley Kirzinger |Liz Hamel
For decades, Black women have consistently been a reliable voting base for the Democratic Party, and in recent elections Democrats have garnered support from large majorities of Black women.1 However, the KFF Survey of Women Voters shows that many Black women do not feel either political party is looking out for their interests, and express dissatisfaction with their candidate options.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
kff.org | Ashley Kirzinger |Audrey Kearney |Isabelle Valdes |Liz Hamel
Suburban women have long been a coveted voting bloc for both Democratic and Republican candidates. Decades ago, this group was largely described as white suburban mothers, but the demographics of suburban women voters are changing and now the group is more akin to a microcosm of the U.S. as they shift younger, and more racially and ethnically diverse – which had led to a strong Democratic advantage in the past two presidential elections.
