Americas’ financial desperation can be seen in the soaring demand for food assistance. AP Photo/John Minchillo Mary G. Findling, Harvard University; John M. Benson, Harvard University, and Robert J. Blendon, Harvard University As Congress prepares another injection of COVID-19 aid for businesses and individuals, there’s been debate about whether it’s […] Read more »
Biden gets 62% approval in CNBC economic survey, topping first ratings of the last four presidents
President Joe Biden is on the best presidential honeymoon since at least Bill Clinton in 1993. A special online edition of the CNBC All-America Economic Survey focusing on the Biden agenda finds his approval rating at a sky-high 62%, beating the first presidential ratings of Presidents Barack Obama, George W. […] Read more »
Can Democrats Win on the Economy?
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve heard much chatter about how Democrats are applying lessons learned from the 2009 stimulus package to crafting the $1.9T COVID relief plan. Overall, most Democrats agree that they didn’t pump enough money into the economy, which meant a longer and less robust recovery. […] Read more »
Americans Support Massive Stimulus Spending
Americans strongly approve of the idea of pumping even more government stimulus money into the U.S. economy. There is little indication that Americans are unduly worried about the impact of this unprecedented spending on the federal budget deficit. … Desperate times call for desperate measures, so it is said, and […] Read more »
Large bipartisan majority of Americans favor more COVID economic relief
A very large and bipartisan majority of Americans would support congressional passage of a new stimulus bill to help those impacted by the pandemic, and many would prefer that it receive bipartisan support in Congress, too. Meanwhile, a majority give President Joe Biden good marks for his handling of the […] Read more »
Two-thirds of Americans approve of Biden’s COVID-19 response
Two-thirds of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds, putting the new commander-in-chief on steady footing after more than two weeks in office. In line with attitudes measured just after his inauguration, twice as many Americans approve of Biden’s leadership […] Read more »