Young adults and religion in 2026

Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ Since 2020, steady percentages of Americans say they identify with a religion, pray daily, consider religion very important in their lives and attend religious services at least monthly. The youngest adults (ages 18 to 22) stand out for their relatively high rate of service attendance but are less distinctive on other measures of religiousness. One-in-ten eligible voters in the U.S. – around 25 million – are naturalized citizens, a number that more than doubled between 2000 and 2024. Naturalized eligible voters tend to be older than their U.S.-born counterparts, and a majority have lived in the United States for more than two decades. Most U.S. adults are open to AI handling or helping with administrative tasks in the healthcare field, such as translating for a patient, scheduling appointments, ordering prescription refills and taking notes. This openness to AI drops off for decisions that directly drive diagnoses or insurance decisions. A majority of Americans (56%) now say they have an unfavorable view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while 35% have a favorable view. Republicans rate ICE far more positively than Democrats do, but views of the agency have grown more negative among both coalitions over the last year. From our research The number of states all but guaranteed to elect their first woman governor next week. They are Minnesota and Tennessee, where both major-party candidates are women.