Despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government, Americans across the political spectrum continue to overwhelmingly express favorable opinions of a number of individual federal agencies, including the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And majorities of […] Read more »
Strong Support for California’s New Child Vaccination Law
There is strong voter support for the state’s new child vaccination law. When asked about recent legislation requiring parents to have their child vaccinated for diseases like the measles, mumps and rubella before they can attend a public or private school or daycare center, greater than eight in ten voters […] Read more »
Just Over a Quarter of U.S. Adults Favor ‘Medicare for All,’ but Many Need More Information
Slightly more than one-fourth (27%) of adults favor eliminating all private health insurance and instituting a “Medicare for All” system, but 40 percent say they need more information to form an opinion, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey out today. … More than two-thirds of people (68%) in the 17 […] Read more »
Wellbeing Declines Halted in 2019
Wellbeing in the U.S. has leveled off in 2019 after two years of decline, with the Well-Being Index score of 61.4 statistically unchanged relative to 2018. This ends a deterioration that began in 2017 but still indicates a nation that has substantially lower wellbeing overall than what was measured in […] Read more »
Voters go ‘center-left’ on issues, but not on candidates
When it comes to issues and issue agendas, there is good news and bad news for Democrats in 2020 in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. On the good news side of the ledger, there some key issues where voters seem supportive of left-leaning ideas and approaches. The bad […] Read more »
Whose healthcare plan is best? Many Democratic voters like them all
Obamacare continues to divide the public. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, 44 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove of the Affordable Care Act. Health care remains one of the top issues overall – and the top issue for Democratic voters, but Democrats are open to alternatives to Obamacare. In fact, few […] Read more »