There is a widespread consensus among the leaders of major American institutions that anyone in their workplaces who told someone else to go back where they came from would face serious consequences. But virtually none of those leaders — from schools and universities to big global companies to nonprofits and […] Read more »
Trust and Distrust in America
Trust is an essential elixir for public life and neighborly relations, and when Americans think about trust these days, they worry. Two-thirds of adults think other Americans have little or no confidence in the federal government. Majorities believe the public’s confidence in the U.S. government and in each other is […] Read more »
Confidence in Organized Religion Remains Low
Americans’ confidence in the church or organized religion continues to erode, with 36% now saying they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in organized religion, establishing another new low point in Gallup’s trend. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
There Should Be a Public Option for Everything
… Most Americans probably associate the idea of a public option with health care. When the Affordable Care Act was debated in 2010, proponents of a public option wanted anyone to be able to buy into a government health insurance option like Medicare that would compete with private health insurance […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Most Democrats do not want to eliminate private insurance
One of the big fault-lines in last week’s Democratic debates was whether there should be private insurance to compete with a government health care plan. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren believed there shouldn’t be. Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg said that there should be a “public option” and private insurance. […] Read more »
Support for Religiously Based Refusals to Serve a Range of Minority Groups is Small, but Increasing Over the Last Five Years
Just as the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a case of a bakery who refused to serve a gay couple due to the owner’s religious beliefs, a new PRRI survey finds that while at least two thirds of Americans oppose allowing small business owners to refuse products or […] Read more »