… 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 »
Economy Trumps Foreign Affairs as Key 2016 Election Issue
Eighty-six percent of Americans say the economy will be extremely or very important to their vote next year, a significantly higher percentage than for any other issue. Concerns about terrorism rank high at 74% with foreign affairs further down the list at 61%. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup 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 »
Americans More Satisfied With Government Economic Functions
Majorities of Americans remain dissatisfied with how the federal government handles labor and employment issues, job creation and economic growth, and the nation’s finances. But they are significantly more satisfied with the government’s handling of these issues than they were in 2013, which marked the low in Americans’ views on […] Read more »
Satisfaction With Federal Poverty Efforts at New Low
Sixteen percent of Americans are satisfied with the work the federal government is doing to address poverty, a new low in Gallup’s 15-year trend. During this time, Americans have never been too satisfied with the government’s efforts on poverty; the high point of 26% satisfaction came the first time it […] Read more »
Sex, Drugs and Poverty in Red and Blue America
In the fall of 1969, Merle Haggard topped the Billboard country charts for four weeks with “Okie from Muskogee,” the song that quickly became the anthem of red America, even before we called it that. “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don’t take our trips on LSD, we don’t […] Read more »