Elizabeth Woodruff drained her retirement account and took on three jobs after she and her husband were sued for nearly $10,000 by the New York hospital where his infected leg was amputated. Ariane Buck, a young father in Arizona who sells health insurance, couldn’t make an appointment with his doctor […] Read more »
Americans divided over when to return to “normal”
According to the latest wave of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index, American adults are largely divided into three camps: those that consider the pandemic over, those that feel left behind by their peers, and those that that are muddling through. The poll also finds that Americans on both sides of the […] Read more »
President Biden’s Approval Rating Undercuts Trump On Inflation Woes
President Joe Biden’s approval rating sank to its lowest level yet as record gas prices sharpened inflation’s bite for household finances, the June IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Biden’s approval rating slid 2.4 points to 43 over the past month as his standing among Democrats continued to deteriorate. The IBD/TIPP presidential job […] Read more »
The Most Important Study in the Abortion Debate
The demographer Diana Greene Foster was in Orlando last month, preparing for the end of Roe v. Wade, when Politico published a leaked draft of a majority Supreme Court opinion striking down the landmark ruling. … Foster, the director of the Bixby Population Sciences Research Unit at UC San Francisco, […] Read more »
Politico-Harvard poll: Majority of Americans support more Covid aid for the uninsured
Most Americans strongly believe the federal government should continue to pay for Covid-19 testing, vaccination and treatment for uninsured individuals, according to a POLITICO-Harvard survey, underscoring the nation’s ongoing anxiety about the virus despite inflationary pressure. … The survey of 1,025 adults, conducted May 6 to 9, found that nearly […] Read more »
How Much Is Biden to Blame for His Poor Approval Ratings?
… With dispirited Democrats braced for losing the House and maybe the Senate in November, a relevant question is whether the current moment of political torment was brought on by easily avoidable miscues by Biden or whether it was inevitable. It’s tempting to begin with Biden’s dismal 41 percent approval […] Read more »