The Week in Charts

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The Week in Charts

Welcome to The Week in Charts, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:

1. November Not Looking Good for the Democrats

Grouped Bar Chart: Key indicators and seat losses in U.S. Representatives for Biden, Trump, Obama and an average of all three in midterm years. On average, there's a -23 point seat loss for the president's party.

In our pre-midterm analysis of the four public mood indicators that have mattered most in past midterm elections, things are looking rather grim for President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats. History has taught us that an incumbent president's party usually loses seats in midterm elections — but this year, all key national metrics are far below historical averages.
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2. Teachers and K-12 Staff Are the Most Burned Out

Line Chart: 44% of U.S. K-12 workers are reporting burnout at work in 2022, compared to 30% of all other workers.

School's out for summer, and teachers couldn't need the break more! In our industry-to-industry burnout comparisons, 44% of K-12 workers have the unfortunate distinction of being top of class, saying they "very often" or "always" feel burned out at work. The least burned out industry? Finance.
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3. Global Pride on the Rise?

Line Chart: 50% of global residents consider their home a good place for gay or lesbian peple in 2022.

This Pride Month, the world hits an important milestone in global attitudes about LGBTQ individuals. For the first time since we started polling about it internationally more than a decade ago, 50% of the world's adults now describe their local area as a good place for gay or lesbian people to live. Asian countries saw the largest increases over the past decade. The U.S. came in behind most of Western Europe.
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4. Are You Stuck in a Broken Job?

Bar Chart: 40% of all adults think the history of slavery impacts Black Americans a lot today, compared to 63% of Black adults.

Most of us around the world will spend about 80,000 hours during our lifetime in a broken workplace. Our annual State of the Global Workplace report highlights just how many workers worldwide are still stuck in a job that grinds them down instead of helping them lead a thriving life.
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5. Are the Vestiges of Slavery Still With Us?

Bar Chart: The top 5 issues that Americans view as morally acceptable, regardless of legality, are birth control, divorce, sex outside of marriage, gay/lesbian relations, and gambling.

Ahead of the Juneteenth holiday that the U.S. observed over the weekend, we asked the public whether the history of slavery in the U.S. impacts the lives of Black Americans today. While a majority of all adults say it does to some degree, six in 10 Black Americans say it impacts their life a lot. Most adults say the U.S. government has a responsibility to take action to reduce the impact of slavery, but less than half say the U.S. should issue a formal apology.
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And that's The Week in Charts!

Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup

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