Today, NAACP, in partnership with the African American Research Collaborative (AARC) and the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) at Yale School of Medicine presented new polling detailing the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on African American communities. The poll is the first of its kind, with a deep dive […] Read more »
The Phony Coronavirus Class War
… Lately some commentators have suggested that the coronavirus lockdowns pit an affluent professional class comfortable staying home indefinitely against a working class more willing to take risks to do their jobs. Writing in The Post, Fareed Zakaria tried to make sense of the partisan split over coronavirus restrictions, describing […] Read more »
Anti-Mask Republicans Least Likely to Want Vaccine
This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 1,011 registered voters conducted May 12-May 15, 2020. • The share of Americans who believe the “worst is yet to come” continues to tick back up, as a second wave of infection and an economic […] Read more »
Majority of Americans who lost a job or wages due to COVID-19 concerned states will reopen too quickly
Last week’s report on unemployment underscored the catastrophic impact the coronavirus outbreak has had on the U.S. economy. The focus in many states has now turned to reopening businesses and getting people back to work. However, most Americans – including 68% of those who have lost their jobs or taken […] Read more »
A majority of Americans going to work fear exposing their household to the coronavirus
… A Washington Post-Ipsos poll of more than 8,000 adults in late April and early May found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans who are working outside their homes were concerned that they could be exposed to the virus at work and infect other members of their household. Those concerns […] Read more »
COVID Impacts Quickly Hit the Economy, American People
Households across the United States continue to face severe economic and social hardships as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Compared to late-April, results from the COVID Impact Survey’s second week of data collection (May 4-10, 2020) suggest that economic, health, and well-being measures improved little across the country. CONT. […] Read more »