On September 23, the religion, policy and politics project at Brookings and PRRI held a discussion of PRRI’s fifth annual American Values Survey (AVS), a large national, multi-issue survey on religion, values and public policy. Co-moderated by Brookings Senior Fellows E.J. Dionne Jr. and William A. Galston, the event featured […] Read more »
Americans Struggling with Economic Insecurity and Concerned about Inequality
Despite the overall improvement in the U.S. economy, a majority of Americans have a decidedly gloomy outlook on their personal financial situation and the economic future of the country heading into the midterm elections, finds the 2014 American Values Survey. … The fifth annual look at religion, values and public […] Read more »
The Fire This Time
The 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the not-guilty verdict in the police beating of black motorist Rodney King were probably the last time the fraught relationship between African-Americans and law enforcement galvanized as much attention as it has since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. … In […] Read more »
Ferguson, Watts and a Dream Deferred
When rioting broke out in the Watts section of Los Angeles in the summer of 1965, African-Americans didn’t — couldn’t — know it yet, but the next three decades would turn out to be a period of sustained gains in terms of income, jobs, education and the status of blacks […] Read more »
In One America, Guns and Diet. In the Other, Cameras and ‘Zoolander.’
… This summer, The Upshot conducted an analysis of every county in the country to determine which were the toughest places to live, based on an index of six factors including income, education and life expectancy. Afterward, we heard from Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, who suggested looking […] Read more »
The Coming Democratic Schism
There is a striking generational split in the Democratic electorate. This deepening division is apparent in a June Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 people, “Beyond Red vs. Blue.” The Pew survey points up the emergence of a cohort of younger voters who are loyal to the Democratic […] Read more »