Reason.com editor-in-chief Nick Gillespie speaks with Reason Polling Director Emily Ekins about the latest Reason-Rupe Poll. Read more »
Most Americans still disapprove of sequester
The government-wide spending cuts known as the sequester remain unpopular for most Americans, with little difference in opinion across party lines, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Friday. Thirty-seven percent of Americans say they have felt a negative impact from the sequester, the poll shows. The data indicates 56 […] Read more »
Budget Cuts Get Personal; Those Who Are Hurt, Holler
The federal budget sequester may be dampening a rise in economic optimism: Nearly four in 10 Americans now say sequestration has hurt them personally, up substantially since it began in March – and they’re far less sanguine than others about the economy’s prospects overall. Thirty-seven percent in the latest ABC […] Read more »
The Congressional War on the Social Sciences
… The nation’s basic science policy, more or less secure for six decades, is being upended, a result of two converging congressional concerns. One is specific to the social sciences—are they real sciences? The second, and much broader, is congressional concern with impact, productivity, pay-off, performance—what justifies science’s claim on […] Read more »
Does immigration hurt support for the welfare state?
Here in the United States, opponents of immigration reform frequently talk about the dangers of rewarding people who came without authorization or the prospect that immigrants might take jobs from native-born Americans. But there is another concern about immigration that they don’t typically raise, one that you are more likely […] Read more »
Few Signs Yet That Sequestration Has Affected Average American
The sequestration that went into effect on March 1 does not appear to be a major issue for most Americans. At least, not according to the available evidence measuring public attitudes that I have seen. We have tracked a set of two questions four times since March 1 — one […] Read more »