Americans may be fed up with national politics and the paralysis in Washington, but that does not mean that they’ve given up on finding solutions to the country’s most vexing social and economic problems.
Instead, Americans increasingly are turning toward community organizations, small businesses, and local governments for fixes, according to the recent Heartland Monitor Poll, conducted in partnership with Allstate and National Journal. In doing so, they are upending the long-held notion that only the federal government has the ingenuity and resources to solve the big questions. CONT.
Nancy Cook, National Journal