In the midst of his first foreign trip since taking office, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds a majority of the American public has a great deal or good amount of trust in President Joe Biden to negotiate on the country’s behalf with other world leaders. That level of trust […] Read more »
Latest jobs report reveals post-Covid economy’s long climb
Friday brought some welcome employment news, with the economy adding roughly 560,000 new jobs in May, knocking the unemployment rate below 6 percent. Combined with the latest news about falling Covid-19 cases and increasing numbers of Americans getting vaccinated, many analysts are hoping for an economic boom this summer as […] Read more »
Global Warming and Clean Energy as Government Priorities
Drawing on a nationally representative survey (n = 1,037; including 922 registered voters), this report describes how registered voters view a variety of climate and energy policies. The survey was fielded from March 18 – 29, 2021. This report focuses on U.S. domestic policy, building on our report released in […] Read more »
Record concerns about rising prices
A falloff in consumer confidence in May is due to surging inflation that consumers anticipate will persist in the year ahead, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. Record proportions of consumers reported higher prices across a wide range of discretionary purchases, including homes, vehicles and household durables. […] Read more »
Economic factors are top priority when Americans decide where to live
How far people’s money will go — and how easy it will be to earn it — are at the top of Americans’ minds when they think about where they would like to live. When asked what is the most important factor in deciding where to live, Americans put employment […] Read more »
Covid job losses hit working mothers especially hard
The Covid-19 pandemic hammered the U.S. economy, taking jobs away across the board, but some workers have faced a harder path — and women have faced some special challenges. A lot of the jobs that were lost in the service sector, in businesses like restaurants and hotels, were held by […] Read more »