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2023 SURVEY CONTEXT
The 2023 survey was fielded throughout the month of March. We list here factors that occurred the year prior and up through the survey period. Accordingly, for the 2023 survey the contextual factors presented range from January 2022 - March 2023, in loose chronological order.
Russia-Ukraine war intensified and sustained throughout 2022, prompting massive casualties and refugees, supply disruptions, and food shortages
Estimated 32 million refugees around the world due to fleeing their native country because of persecution, conflict, or violence
Inflation rose notably around the world
Climate crisis remained at forefront; extreme weather events becoming more common; experts continued to warn of consequences of inaction
COVID-19 pandemic eased across the globe and most cautionary measures were ended, except China that continued its zero-tolerance policy; 1 million Covid-19 deaths in the US marked on May 12, 2022
Deforestation and fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of 2022, despite Brazil vowing to halt deforestation by 2030
Non-fungible token (NFT) market collapsed
US Supreme Court blocked President Biden's vaccine and testing requirement aimed at large businesses, but allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide (Jan 2022)
Democratic socialist Xiomara Castro sworn in as president of Honduras, furthering the trend to the political left in Latin America; also Honduras’ first female president (Jan 2022)
Truth Social, a social media app similar to Twitter and owned by Trump Media and Technology Group, went live (Feb 2022)
US Soccer and the US Women’s National Team announced they reached an agreement to end a dispute over equal pay (Feb 2022)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the Parental Rights in Education bill, also known as Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation; among other things, it restricts discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools (Mar 2022)
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as Supreme Court Justice, making her the first black woman to serve in the role (Apr 2022)
Gunman in Uvalde, Texas killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School; third-deadliest school shooting in US history (May 2022)
Payton Gendron killed 10 people in a racist mass shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo, New York (May 2022)
US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (June 2022)
The House select committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol held its first prime-time hearing (June 2022)
Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson testified against former President Trump before the Jan 6th Committee (June 2022)
Boris Johnson resigned as British Prime Minister; he was succeeded by Liz Truss who lasted only 45 days before launching the UK’s economy into chaos and being replaced by Rishi Sunak who is Britain’s first PM of color (July 2022)
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated two days before Japan’s parliamentary elections (July 2022)
President Biden announced the US killed al Quaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike (July 2022)
Salman Rushdie, an Indian-born British-American author, was stabbed multiple times on stage before a lecture he was scheduled to give at the Chautauqua Instititution in western New York; Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey resident, was arrested (Aug 2022)
FBI conducted a search of Mar-a-Lago, home of former President Trump, and found classified materials including documents labeled "top secret" (Aug 2022)
Queen Elizabeth II died (Sept 2022)
Protests in Iran against the mistreatment of women began; Iranian security forces killed hundreds of protestors on the streets, and the government publicly executed some protestors who were convicted in rushed trials (Sept 2022)
Elon Musk took control of Twitter (Oct 2022)
Paul Pelosi, husband of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was hospitalized after being attacked with a hammer by a radicalized right-wing conspiracy theorist at the couple’s San Francisco home (Oct 2022)
Biden administration released its National Security Strategy, calling out the power competition between the US and China and non-support of China’s rise (Oct 2022)
In US midterm elections Republicans won a slim majority in the House and Democrats held control of the Senate (Nov 2022)
Former President Trump announced he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 (Nov 2022)
A gunman opened fire inside an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing five people and injuring at least 19 others (Nov 2022)
Qatar hosted FIFA World Cup amidst alleged human rights violations and bribery scandal (Nov-Dec 2022)
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capital voted during its final public meeting to refer former President Trump to the Department of Justice on at least four criminal charges; four days later the panel released its final report recommending Trump be barred from holding office again (Dec 2022)
A mass shooter at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California killed 11 people as the city’s Asian American community was celebrating Lunar New Year (Jan 2023)
Tyre Nichols was pulled over for reckless driving in Tennessee; he was hospitalized following the arrest and died three days later from injuries sustained during the traffic stop; five officers from the Memphis Police Department were fired and indicted by a grand jury (Jan 2023)
The White House counsel’s office confirmed that several classified documents from President Biden’s time as vice president were discovered last fall in an office at the Penn Biden Center, and a small number of additional classified documents were located in President Biden’s home (Jan 2023)
The Trump Organization was fined $1.6 million by a New York judge for running a decade-long tax fraud scheme (Jan 2023)
Harvey Weinstein, who was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, was sentenced in Los Angeles to an additional 16 years in prison for charges of rape and sexual assault (Feb 2023)
A suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon was shot down over Atlantic Ocean by US military fighter jet (Feb 2023)
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