This report presents results from an international survey, conducted in partnership with Facebook Data for Good, investigating public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior among Facebook users in more than 30 countries and territories worldwide. CONTINUED Yale Program on Climate Change Communication The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters say IRS, Facebook have too much power
There is clear concern among voters about big technology companies and big government. When it comes to Big Tech, one issue is bias. The latest Fox News national survey finds only 26 percent of voters trust social media companies to make fair decisions about the content posted on their platforms. […] Read more »
A survey finds support for halting federal unemployment benefits
… The federal government is providing jobless workers with $300 a week in benefits on top of their regular unemployment payments. … Critics, including many business owners and Republican politicians, argue that the extra benefits are discouraging people from looking for jobs and making it hard for businesses to find […] Read more »
Is Education No Longer the ‘Great Equalizer’?
There is an ongoing debate over what kind of investments in human capital — roughly the knowledge, skills, habits, abilities, experience, intelligence, training, judgment, creativity and wisdom possessed by an individual — contribute most to productivity and life satisfaction. Is education no longer “a great equalizer of the conditions of […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: 83% worry about inflation, majority says benefits hurting economy
Most voters worry about inflation, as sizable majorities call gas and grocery prices a financial hardship. At the same time, they think the federal government’s additional unemployment benefits were a necessary lifeline during the pandemic, but are damaging the economy now. That’s according to the latest Fox News national survey. […] Read more »
The ACA Survives, in One More Victory for Boring Old Liberalism
Plain vanilla American liberalism hasn’t been particularly fashionable for a long time, and it certainly isn’t now. Anyone who regularly consumes high-status media like NPR or the Wall Street Journal, or who spends any time at all in the Twitterverse, could well conclude that today’s politics is mostly defined by […] Read more »