A record number of American voters think they pay too much in taxes. In addition, they think government is more often the source of America’s troubles — not the means of fixing them. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Support for the Affordable Care Act Breaks Down Along Racial Lines
Race remains an impenetrable dividing line in attitudes about the Affordable Care Act five years after President Obama signed it into law. With Obama celebrating the law’s fifth anniversary last week—and House and Senate Republicans marking the occasion by voting again to repeal it—polls show that whites remain much more […] Read more »
Candidates and Wealthy Are Aligned on Inequality
Appearing at a candidate forum in late January, three likely Republican presidential contenders — Senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul — all made a striking confession: They considered “the increasing gap between rich and poor” to be a problem. But on the question of whether the government should […] Read more »
Support for redistribution in an age of rising inequality
Despite the large increases in economic inequality since 1970, American survey respondents exhibit no increase in support for redistribution, in contrast to the predictions from standard theories of redistributive preferences. We replicate these results but further demonstrate substantial heterogeneity by demographic groups. In particular, the two groups who have most […] Read more »
Worries About Terrorism, Race Relations Up Sharply
Out of 15 domestic issues, Americans’ concerns about terrorism and race relations have risen most sharply over the past year. The percentage of Americans who worry “a great deal” about the possibility of a terrorist attack (51%) climbed 12 percentage points from 2014 to 2015, while concerns about race relations […] Read more »
How Business Made Us Christian
America may be a nation of believers, but when it comes to this country’s identity as a “Christian nation,” our beliefs are all over the map. Just a few weeks ago, Public Policy Polling reported that 57 percent of Republicans favored officially making the United States a Christian nation. But […] Read more »