As U.S. students begin the 2022-2023 school year, Americans are mostly divided on whether students at all levels of education should be required to have COVID-19 vaccinations as a condition of in-person attendance. Slightly less than half of Americans, 48%, believe elementary students should be vaccinated in order to attend […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: More concern over coronavirus than monkeypox
As the U.S. approaches year four of battling the novel coronavirus and starts to grapple with another health crisis, monkeypox, the latest Fox News survey finds voters are more concerned about the virus that has plagued the country since 2020 than the one that has more recently taken hold. Moreover, […] Read more »
Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation
Fears of eviction. Trouble affording groceries. Unmet medical needs. A national poll — from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — finds those are all too common experiences for high proportions of Black, Latino and Native American adults as the U.S. […] Read more »
Approval of the Supreme Court at new lows; strong partisan differences over abortion, gun rights
A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds approval of the U.S. Supreme Court has fallen to 38%, while 61% disapprove of how the Court is handling its job. In May, 44% approved and 55% disapproved, and in March, 54% approved and 45% disapproved. … Over the past three […] Read more »
Confidence in Public Schools Turns More Partisan
Americans’ confidence in U.S. public schools remains low, with 28% saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the institution, similar to 32% last year. Both figures are down from 41% in 2020, reflecting a brief surge in the early months of the pandemic after […] Read more »
Confidence in U.S. Institutions Down; Average at New Low
Americans are less confident in major U.S. institutions than they were a year ago, with significant declines for 11 of the 16 institutions tested and no improvements for any. The largest declines in confidence are 11 percentage points for the Supreme Court — as reported in late June before the […] Read more »