A survey released today by PRRI finds that white Americans’ support for policies to address poverty is limited in different ways by education level—by perceived social distance to racial minorities among non-college-educated whites and by lower commitments to equal opportunity among college-educated whites. The survey was conducted by PRRI, a […] Read more »
Obamacare repeal still tops GOP voters’ to-do lists
Republican leaders want to move past Obamacare repeal, but most GOP voters aren’t ready to let them do it. According to the latest POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, a key finding shows the Trump administration’s messaging on health care is clearly resonating with the party’s base. CONT. […] Read more »
GOP tax reform: likely loser
Republicans could score with their tax reform proposals. But they almost certainly won’t. Americans would be receptive to eliminating tax breaks for big corporations and lowering taxes for the middle class. Alas, the GOP is congenitally incapable of producing such a plan because its real objective has long been reducing […] Read more »
The next GOP hurdle: Many Americans aren’t sure they even need tax reform
Republicans are facing a tough sell as they try to make the case for a sweeping rewrite of the nation’s tax code to the American public this month. Recent polling data show many households don’t appear convinced that there’s a problem with the current system. About half actually feel their […] Read more »
Trump’s Immigration Agenda Makes a Fundamental Miscalculation
Like many of President Trump’s policies, the White House’s recent embrace of a plan to cut legal immigration in half rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the economic relationship between “the brown and the gray.” That’s the phrase I’ve applied to America’s increasingly diverse younger generations and its predominantly white […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Nearly seven in 10 judge Congress a failure so far
Here’s a silver lining for President Donald Trump: he’s still more popular than Congress. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have earned the ire of most Americans, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with nearly seven in 10 (68%) judging the Republican Congress a failure so far […] Read more »