The Pacific Rim trade deal making its way through Congress is the latest step in a decades-long trend toward liberalizing trade — a somewhat mysterious development given that many Americans are skeptical of freer trade. But Americans with higher incomes are not so skeptical. They — along with businesses and […] Read more »
Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance
The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden have brought new attention to debates about how best to preserve Americans’ privacy in the digital age. At the same time, the public has been awash with news stories detailing security breaches at major […] Read more »
How Income Inequality Factors Into the 2016 Campaign
… Income inequality is back in the headlines, but it’s more than Elizabeth Warren’s rhetoric or Bernie Sanders‘s presidential announcement; Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, and others have joined the conversation. These combined voices suggest the ground may be shifting on the issue of income inequality and in popular resentment toward […] Read more »
Battleground 2016: Economic security, equal opportunity, and a fair shot at the American Dream
Celinda Lake, Daniel Gotoff & Matt Ogren, Lake Research Partners The findings from the most recent Battleground survey underscore the deep sense of anxiety and frustration that have defined the national mood for well over a decade now—anxiety over an economy that voters see as rigged against the interests of […] Read more »
What do Americans think about free trade? Not much.
We are witnessing a rare (these days) internecine fight in the Democratic Party over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a treaty that would liberalize trade relations between the United States and 11 other Pacific-rim countries. … But the TPP is a controversy on which Obama may be unusually free to ignore […] Read more »
Millennials Most Trusting on Safety of Personal Information
In spite of high-visibility data breaches, 44% of millennials in the United States believe that their personal information is kept private “all” or “most of the time” by the businesses or companies they do business with. This is the highest of all major U.S. generational groups. CONT. John Fleming, Gallup Read more »