As the United States faces twin crises of high unemployment and a global pandemic, large majorities of Americans want Joe Biden and Congress to prioritize strengthening the economy and addressing the coronavirus outbreak in the coming year. Yet there are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked […] Read more »
Americans’ Economic Mood Sinks for Second Straight Month
Americans’ assessments of the U.S. economy worsened in January after an even larger stumble in December, but following seven months when economic perceptions had generally shown modest improvements. … As was the case in December, the decrease in Americans’ economic confidence in January was driven by Republicans’ increasingly negative views […] Read more »
Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Improved in January
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index® improved moderately in January, after decreasing in December. The Index now stands at 89.3 (1985=100), up from 87.1 in December. However, the Present Situation Index – based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions – decreased from 87.2 to 84.4. The […] Read more »
Politico-Harvard poll: Public strongly backs Biden’s demand for Covid aid
Americans just want the pandemic to be over — and President-elect Joe Biden will take office with overwhelming support for government action to make that happen. The vast majority of Americans are eager for sweeping legislation aimed at ending the nation’s health crisis and boosting the flagging economy, according to […] Read more »
Most Americans Foresee Biden Improving Environment, Education
More than half of Americans expect the Biden administration will be able to accomplish 10 of 15 specific national and foreign policy goals commonly sought by U.S. presidents. The public is most likely to predict the next administration will make improvements to the environment (64%), education (63%) and conditions for […] Read more »
100% Hart: A Summary of 2020 Polling
100% of family caregivers for an aging or disabled family member are worried about their family’s health due to COVID-19. 99% of voters said they’d seen, heard, or read about the spread of the coronavirus in March, when there were more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. […] Read more »