This month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds Americans’ opinion of the health care law closely divided, 43 percent say they have a favorable view of the law and 42 percent say they have an unfavorable view. … The public continues to view the law through a partisan lens, a dynamic […] Read more »
What polls say about Medicaid expansion in Florida
… Several polls over the years have looked at whether Floridians favor making the program larger. In 2013, three polls showed support for expansion as high as 62 or 63 percent, although one from the James Madison Institute was as low as 30 percent. One 2014 University of Florida poll […] Read more »
Americans’ Money Worries Unchanged From 2014
Gallup’s Financial Worry metric, which tracks the percentage of Americans worried about multiple common financial challenges, is steady this year at 50%, similar to 49% in 2014. While the metric is down from the 56%-to-61% range seen during the economically challenged period from 2008 through 2012, it remains higher than […] Read more »
Parents’ College Funding Worries Are Top Money Concern
More U.S. parents worry about having enough money to pay for their children’s college education than other Americans worry about any common financial concerns. The 73% of parents of children younger than 18 who worry about funding college tops the 70% of lower-income Americans who worry about having enough money […] Read more »
Majority of Americans Say Obamacare Should Get Time to Work
It may come as news to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, but a majority of Americans is not, in his words, dreaming of “repealing every word of Obamacare.” Fifty-one percent of U.S. adults say that while the Affordable Care Act may still require small changes, “we should see how it […] Read more »
What does gun violence really cost?
… How much does gun violence cost our country? It’s a question we’ve been looking into at Mother Jones ever since the 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, left 58 injured and 12 dead. How much care would the survivors and the victims’ families need? What would […] Read more »