Deindustrialization has decimated the blue-collar workforce in the US. … Our research examines the effects of deindustrialization on electoral politics. Specifically, we explore how deindustrialization affected voting in three US presidential elections (2008-2016), using county-level data which captures localized manufacturing job losses. Our argument is that responses to what we […] Read more »
Can Reality Live Up To Expectations?
All indicators right now point to “go.” Americans have never been more optimistic about their financial futures, and many are busy planning social, active summers. But the recent April jobs report suggests that we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves. Jobs growth was much slower than projected, and unemployment […] Read more »
Americans’ Confidence in Their Finances Has Mostly Recovered
After slipping last April, the percentage of Americans feeling positive about their finances has fully rebounded to where it was in 2019. Fifty-seven percent now describe their current financial situation as excellent or good. That is one percentage point higher than the 56% recorded in 2019 and significantly better than […] Read more »
Can fighting climate change be good economics?
Arguments about the environment through the years have often been framed as strict tradeoffs between either helping it or helping the economy. Naturally, that’s reflected in a lot of our old poll questions over four decades of surveys, with a steady run of climate-or-costs-types of choices offered; would you pick […] Read more »
Environmental Record a Factor for Most U.S. Job Seekers
About seven in 10 U.S. workers say that a company’s environmental record matters to some degree in whether or not they would take a job with that company. This includes 24% who say that it is a “major factor” and a 45% plurality who say a company’s environmental record is […] Read more »
U.S. consumer confidence passes pre-pandemic levels
Americans’ consumer sentiment surpasses levels last seen just before the March 2020 lockdowns as the Overall Confidence Index in this week’s Ipsos-Forbes Advisor U.S. Consumer Confidence Tracker hits 61.2. This week’s score is less than 3 points shy of its historical record of 63.8 high of May 2018. Other sub-indices […] Read more »