A little more than a week after television networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., top executives and anchors at Fox News held an after-action meeting to figure out how they had messed up. Not because they had gotten the key call wrong — but because […] Read more »
Consumer sentiment: Positive business outlook outweighs unemployment concerns
Consumer sentiment lifted for the third straight month in February, rising a modest 3% above January, supported by a 12% improvement in consumers’ outlook over the economy for the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. However, sentiment remains well below its historical average; in spite […] Read more »
Americans do not believe the country is ready for another pandemic
Americans have a pessimistic view of American public health, even as most report their own health and well-being as mostly good. Our new Axios-Ipsos American Health Index also shows that only three in ten Americans believe the country is ready for another pandemic, and a quarter or less believe that […] Read more »
A Strategy for Factory Towns
… This report is part of a continuing effort by American Family Voices to do on-the-ground research and data analysis to understand the thinking and motivation of working-class voters, and to recommend strategies that can begin to rebuild the Democratic Party’s and progressive movement’s historic connection to America’s working class. […] Read more »
Class-Clown Brands Are Trying to LoLz Us to Death
“I’m funny how? … Funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you?” — Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci), “Goodfellas” For generations advertising has honed a stand-up style of humor that blends commerce and comedy to entertain, inform and sell. … But as social media devour consumer attention and ad spend, so […] Read more »
2023 Edelman Trust Barometer: Navigating a Polarized World
2022 was supposed to have been the year when the world emerged from the pandemic, with a promised return to normal life and an economic boom. Instead, we got an unprecedented Russian invasion of Ukraine, spiraling commodity prices, greater global food insecurity, skyrocketing interest rates, continued climate shocks, strict Covid […] Read more »