As Joe Biden assumes the presidency, there is an urgency to responding to the crises Chief of Staff Ron Klain put in a memo to the senior White House staff and the president emphasized in his inaugural address: the pandemic crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, the ongoing […] Read more »
Five Policy Changes on Biden’s Initial Agenda
Fortune magazine’s perceptive journalist Geoff Colvin has listed five policy changes President-elect Joe Biden will make that will be most significant for C-suite business leaders, whom he argues are going to be positive about most of these changes. But what about average Americans? That’s a nontrivial question, given that Americans’ […] Read more »
Biden-Harris Economic Priorities and U.S. Public Opinion
The Biden-Harris transition website lists four priorities for the forthcoming administration: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. How well do these priorities sync with U.S. public opinion? One way to answer that question is to use Gallup’s monthly update on Americans’ views of the most important problem facing […] Read more »
Bipartisan Majorities Favor Tax Incentives For Clean Energy and Efficiency
A new in-depth survey finds bipartisan majorities support a number of tax incentives that seek to reduce the use of fossil fuels. The proposals, all introduced in Congress, include measures to encourage developing alternative sources of clean energy–such as solar and wind, making homes and commercial buildings more energy efficient, […] Read more »
Washington Post-ABC poll: Biden maintains lead nationally over Trump
With little more than three weeks remaining until Election Day, President Trump is in a race against the clock as he continues to trail former vice president Joe Biden by double digits, his standing driven down by distrust on the issue of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Washington Post-ABC […] Read more »
Powered by trust on the pandemic, Biden leads by 12 points nationwide
Joe Biden holds a 17-point lead over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, powering the Democrat to a double-digit advantage in vote preference with the presidential election three weeks away. In the aftermath of his own COVID-19 diagnosis, two-thirds of […] Read more »