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Byron Williams
Winston-Salem Journal
There is a growing belief that civics, generally defined as the rights and responsibilities of the citizen, has a role to play in fortifying the 21st American experiment.
American civics is essential to sustaining our democratic-republican form of government. The vitality embedded in the phrases âlife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,â âWe the people,â and âgovernment of the people, by the people, and for the people,â depend on a requisite number of citizens that appreciate Americaâs complicated and paradoxical story from fledgling upstart to global economic and military superpower.
A 2015 survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania found that only 36% of adults could name all three branches of the U.S. government; 35% couldnât name even one. Only 27% of respondents knew that it requires a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate to override a
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Three in four people say COVID-19 vaccines effective and safer than getting virus A national probability Annenberg Science Knowledge survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that about 15% of people are uncertain about the vaccine, but persuadable.
More than 259 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in the United States from Dec. 14, 2020, through May 10, 2021. As of May 5, 2021, well over half a million deaths 576,238 people have been reported from COVID-19 in the United States.
Yet public health officials have expressed concern that many U.S. communities may not be on track to reach the level of immunity required to halt the replication and hence the mutation of SARS-CoV-2. The rate at which Americans are being vaccinated is slowing. Faced with a lack of demand, some vaccine sites have closed. In some places, vaccines are going unused.
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