In advance of Friday’s jobs report, the public’s assessment of job availability in their local communities has improved modestly. But that has done nothing to boost overall economic optimism. CONT. Pew Read more »
What Makes People Poor?
Let’s imagine for a moment that there are no political pressures distorting our discussion of poverty and that we can look at it as a technical problem, not a moral one. Maybe we would find that most explanations – left, right and center – are not mutually exclusive but mutually […] Read more »
Americans Approve of Unions but Support ‘Right to Work’
A slim majority of Americans, 53%, approve of labor unions, although approval remains on the low end of Gallup’s nearly 80-year trend on this question. Approval has been as high as 75% in the 1950s. Currently, 38% disapprove of unions. At the same time Americans express greater approval than disapproval […] Read more »
Survey says: People don’t trust pollsters anymore
Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal speaks with David Leonhardt of The New York Times. Read more »
State by State: Key Metrics for 2014
Gallup’s unique daily interviewing, involving more than 350,000 completed interviews a year, along with Gallup’s 2013 50-state poll consisting of approximately 600 interviews in each state, provides the unique ability to measure the views of the residents of each state in the union on a wide variety of important measures. […] Read more »
A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate
… The declining response rate to surveys of almost all kinds is among the biggest problems in the social sciences. It’s complicating our ability to understand how people live and what they believe. … The response rate of the Labor Department’s monthly jobs survey is far higher (about 89 percent) […] Read more »