Most Americans support increasing the minimum wage, as well as requiring employers to provide paid sick leave and parental leave, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. All three were proposed by President Barack Obama during his recent State of the Union address as ways to increase protections for American […] Read more »
CBS News poll on vaccines and the measles outbreak
Two-thirds of Americans (66 percent) think parents should be required to vaccinate their children, and a similar percentage (64 percent) say children who are not vaccinated should not be allowed to attend public school. … Majorities across all ages and education levels, as well as across the political spectrum, think […] Read more »
How Different Groups Think about Scientific Issues
… There has been considerable interest in specific demographic breakdowns of the general public’s answers to science-related questions that Pew Research covered in its recent report on science issues and the gaps between citizens and scientists’ opinions on a range of issues. Here are additional demographic breakdowns of views among […] Read more »
The Parent Agenda, the Emerging Democratic Focus
… The emerging Democratic agenda is meant to appeal to parents. The policies under discussion — paid family leave; universal preschool; an expanded earned-income tax credit and child tax credit; free community college and perhaps free four-year college in time — are intended both to alleviate the burdens on middle-class […] Read more »
Fear of measles? Most Americans want children vaccinated
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control warned of the possibility of a large outbreak of measles on television Sunday, and urged vaccinations. About half the American public in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll are concerned about a possible epidemic, and even more would require vaccinations against measles, mumps and […] Read more »
Americans And Scientists Agree More On Vaccines Than On Other Hot Button Issues
You might have gotten the idea from Rand Paul and Chris Christie that most Republicans don’t believe parents should be required to vaccinate their children. In fact, the opposite is true (as statements by Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and Rick Perry suggest). The majority of people — of […] Read more »