February 20, 2025, report (Pew Research Center): The affordability of health care
(67%), inflation (63%), the federal budget deficit (57%) and the number of Americans
living in poverty (53%) are also among the public’s top concerns.
About half or more see the ability of Republicans and Democrats to work together
(56%), drug addiction (51%) and the state of moral values (50%) as very big problems
in the country today.
Far smaller shares of the public see terrorism, racism or climate change as very big
problems for the nation – though Republicans and Democrats disagree about the
severity of some of these problems. 
Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing
ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing
in particular.” This accelerating trend is reshaping the U.S. religious landscape, leading
many people to wonder what the future of religion in America might look like.
If trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the
U.S. population in just a few decades. In all the scenarios, Christianity’s share of the
U.S. population declines. “Depending on whether religious switching continues at recent
rates, speeds up, or stops entirely,” the report says, the Center’s projections show
Christians shrinking from 64% of Americans of all ages in 2020 to between 54% and
35% by 2070.