In the U.S., 31% of single-parent households report times in the past 12 months when they struggled to afford food, much more than the 19% of two-parent households who say the same, according to an analysis of adults aged 18 to 50. Single-parent households also report greater difficulty affording food […] Read more »
Americans Praise Gov’t Work on Natural Disasters, Parks
Three-quarters of Americans are satisfied with the work the federal government does in responding to natural disasters, and nearly as many applaud the government’s efforts on national parks and open space. A majority also rate the government positively for its handling of homeland security, transportation, and the military and national […] Read more »
The Deep South and Medicaid Expansion
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid so that it can provide health insurance to a larger pool of low income uninsured adults, including adults with no children and whose incomes are below about $16,000 a year. … In the Deep South states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South […] Read more »
Our Feelings About Inequality: It’s Complicated
How much do Americans care about rising income inequality? Surveys send mixed signals. In a poll released last year by the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans agreed that there were “strong conflicts between the rich and poor” — up substantially from when the question was asked in 2009 — […] Read more »
People in UK more likely to sympathise with poor than Americans, French and Germans
Britons are less inclined than the French to regard the workless as indulged, readier than the Germans to pay taxes to help them, and decidedly less relaxed about top salaries than the Americans, according to a major transnational study by the academic thinktank YouGov-Cambridge, which put identical questions to voters […] Read more »
Who Is Poor?
There are three ways of defining poverty in America: the official Census Bureau method, which uses a set of income thresholds that vary by family size and composition; an experimental income-based method called the Supplemental Poverty Measure that factors in government programs designed to help people with low incomes; and […] Read more »