Despite the money top college men’s basketball and football programs generate, college athletes are not paid, and 31% of Americans believe there is some truth to the argument that this is because many student athletes are African American. CONT. HBO Real Sports/Marist Read more »
Public Divides on College Players Union But Most Nix Salaries for Student Athletes
With March Madness focusing fans on college sports, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds Americans split evenly on whether college athletes should be allowed to unionize. But most, regardless, say students shouldn’t be paid to play. The public divides by 47-47 percent on whether student athletes should be able […] Read more »
Large majority opposes paying NCAA athletes
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a large majority of the general public opposes paying salaries to college athletes beyond the scholarships currently offered. Only 33 percent support paying college athletes. At 64 percent, opposition is nearly twice as high as support, with 47 percent strongly against the […] Read more »
The Role of Big Government
Which of these is the biggest threat to the future of the U.S.? Big government, big business, or big labor? That’s the question Gallup began asking Americans back in 1965, and we have continued asking it on a periodic basis since. As Jeff Jones reports this week, the percentage of […] Read more »
Record High in U.S. Say Big Government Greatest Threat
Seventy-two percent of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. The prior high for big government was 65% in 1999 and 2000. Big government has […] Read more »
It may be Labor Day weekend, but union power is waning
It’s Labor Day weekend. For most, the weekend marks the end of the summer. A last hurrah before football starts and the kids go back to school. You’ll notice I haven’t mentioned anything about “labor”. That’s cause while labor’s political influence is still poignant, it’s clearly not the powerhouse it […] Read more »