While this month Congress passed and President Obama vetoed legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, voters nationally aren’t focused on the law in this year’s presidential election, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds. CONT. Kaiser Family Foundation Read more »
Americans’ Priorities for 2016
Terrorism, health care, immigration, education, and unemployment top the list of the public’s priorities for 2016. While eager for Washington to expend a significant amount of effort dealing with their concerns for the United States, the public has little confidence that the federal government will be able to make much […] Read more »
Budget Deficit Slips as Public Priority
As Barack Obama begins his final year in office, the goal of reducing the budget deficit, which the public once ranked among the most pressing objectives for his administration, has continued its recent decline in perceived importance. CONT. Pew Read more »
Government, Economy Return as Most Important Problems
Americans who say terrorism is the nation’s top problem fell to 9% this month, after jumping to 16% in December in the wake of terror attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris. With concern about terrorism down, the government and the economy have resumed their top-ranking positions on Gallup’s list […] Read more »
Government Named Top U.S. Problem for Second Straight Year
For the second consecutive year, dissatisfaction with government edged out the economy as the problem more Americans identified as the nation’s top problem in 2015. According to Gallup’s monthly measure of the most important problem facing the U.S., an average of 16% of Americans in 2015 mentioned some aspect of […] Read more »
What’s the biggest problem facing the country? Democrats and Republicans disagree.
As they barnstorm across the caucus and primary states, the Republican and Democratic frontrunners for the presidential nomination often sound as if they’re from different countries, not just different parties. … They’re not just offering different answers to the nation’s problems; they’re asking different questions. CONT. Doyle McManus, Los Angeles […] Read more »