President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are poised to channel historic investments into programs for kids — if they can navigate around competing demands, particularly from programs for seniors, as they slim down the massive public investment and social safety net bill now under intense negotiation on Capitol Hill. The […] Read more »
The Child Tax Credit Breakthrough: New poll in 2022 Senate and House battleground
The Child Tax Credit gets a very warm reception from those receiving it. It is received very positively by Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans, Millennials and unmarried women in the Democratic base, but also parents, especially white parents, and younger white working class voters. That disrupts the usual pattern of […] Read more »
Concern over crime is growing — but Americans don’t just want more police
Concern over crime has reached the highest point in four years amid a spike in killings in big cities and an uptick in violent crime, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday, and the percentage of Americans who say crime in the United States is “extremely serious” has […] Read more »
Biden is rated poorly on handling crime; alternative approaches win broad favor
The number of Americans seeing crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high, President Joe Biden is underwater in trust to handle it and broad majorities in an ABC News/Washington Post poll favor alternative crime-fighting strategies to address it. A sweeping […] Read more »
U.S. stands out among 28 countries in perceptions of social tension
A new Ipsos Global Advisor poll, carried out in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, shows over half of Americans (57%) think that their country is divided by “culture wars.” Just over a third of people from 28 countries across the world (a Global Country Average of […] Read more »
Is Education No Longer the ‘Great Equalizer’?
There is an ongoing debate over what kind of investments in human capital — roughly the knowledge, skills, habits, abilities, experience, intelligence, training, judgment, creativity and wisdom possessed by an individual — contribute most to productivity and life satisfaction. Is education no longer “a great equalizer of the conditions of […] Read more »