As U.S. schoolchildren head back to the classroom, a Gallup review of 16 years of data from its education polls yields five insights into parents’ satisfaction with their own children’s education. CONT. Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
Parents’ Fears for Child’s Safety at School Unchanged
U.S. parents’ concern for their children’s physical safety at school has held steady this year at 28%. Parents’ fears most recently edged up to 33% in 2012 and 2013 after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Since then, the percentage of parents who fear for their children’s […] Read more »
Walmart Moms Focus Group Video
As part of our continuing series of focus groups among Walmart Moms, Neil Newhouse of Public Opinion Strategies and Margie Omero of Penn Schoen Berland conducted two focus groups on Tuesday, August 9, 2016. We have tracked these Walmart Moms – defined as voters with children under 18 in their […] Read more »
Latinas and the 2016 elections
A recent poll of Latina voters commissioned by American Women, Voto Latino and iAmerica highlights the important role of Hispanic women in this year’s presidential elections. Latinas express more enthusiasm for voting in the 2016 elections than in the 2014 mid-term elections, driven by very polarized feelings about the political […] Read more »
Republican dads think they’re great fathers. Democrats don’t.
Is fatherhood political? As we celebrate Father’s Day in this unlike-anything-we-have-ever-seen election year, Republicans and Democrats continue to grow further apart in terms of their views on candidates, policies and political events. And our research suggests that even being a dad isn’t exempt from that trend. CONT. Steven Greene (NC […] Read more »
The United State of Women: Reproductive health is an economic issue
… A survey of 2016 general election likely voters conducted this past April shows that families’ major economic conversations are driven by the freedom to decide and plan if and when to have children. Until policymakers and politicians acknowledge that having the freedom and ability to plan if and when […] Read more »