… Universal background checks are supported by 91 percent of Americans. Yet there is enormous resistance in Congress to passing a strong bill to keep arms out of the wrong hands. … Or consider the Morning Joe/Marist poll last week showing 64 percent of Americans saying that job creation should […] Read more »
Five myths about the minimum wage
In February’s State of the Union address, President Obama provoked conservatives’ ire by proposing an increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9. Especially in a struggling economy, wouldn’t a minimum-wage boost increase unemployment and hurt small businesses? And would it even help the working poor? Let’s […] Read more »
Michigan sharply divided over right-to-work
As Michigan becomes the nation’s 24th right-to-work state, its residents remain sharply divided over whether the new law will hurt or help the economy, Michigan State University’s latest State of the State Survey shows. Of the 1,013 Michigan adults surveyed this winter, 42.7 percent said they believe the new law […] Read more »
It’s all partisan — except jobs
… American has become a nation of partisan zombies that struggle to have a serious thought outside their partisan ties. If I ask a Democrat or a Republican a question about education, healthcare, guns, energy or environment, their first instinct is to intuit how their own party or the other […] Read more »
Americans Widely Back Government Job Creation Proposals
Americans widely support each of three job creation proposals, including offering tax breaks to businesses that create jobs in the U.S. and a program that would put people to work on urgent infrastructure repair projects. Support for these programs is only slightly lower in a variant of the question that […] Read more »
YG Network: National Survey
A new national poll released today by the conservative policy-advocacy group YG Network shows Americans believe the country is at an economic crossroads and remain most concerned with jobs and the economy – nearly twice as much when compared to other priorities. Moreover, focusing on family pocketbook issues like soaring […] Read more »