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These reports cover the American experience ranging from immigration to aging population to civil rights to childcare to poverty. Explore this demographic data for a fuller picture of who lives in the US.

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Can people with felony convictions vote?

In 23 states, those with felony convictions automatically regain the right to vote when they are released from prison.

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Disability in the US, 30 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act

According to US Census Bureau estimates, there were just over 40 million Americans with a disability in the US in 2018. 7.6 million were employed.

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Six years after the Supreme Court ruling, what's the state of same-sex marriage in the US?

Compared with opposite-sex couples, same-sex married couples were more likely to have higher household incomes, be employed, and be more educated.

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Ahead of Supreme Court hearing, here's a look at the data on LGBTQ workplace discrimination cases

Since its creation, EEOC has come to enforce laws related to multiple other types of discrimination, including age, disabilities, and genetic information. None of its underlying statutes address sexual orientation explicitly, but after 2013, the agency has considered LGBTQ-based sex discrimination as a part of a broader sex discrimination category.

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