Just Over Half of the Nation’s Workforce Have Lost a Job or Income Due to Coronavirus

With many businesses shut down and job losses mounting nationwide, just over half of the nation’s workers (55%) now say they have lost a job or had their incomes reduced as a result of the health and economic crises sparked by the novel coronavirus pandemic, the latest KFF Health Tracking […] Read more »

Bipartisan Support for Expanded Vote By Mail in November

This edition of our daily tracking release features findings from a national online survey of 1,010 registered voters conducted April 20-April 23, 2020. • Trump’s approval rating on handling the coronavirus pandemic remains negative and tracks with Americans hearing more negative things about his handling of the crisis.• Most Americans […] Read more »

Most Texas voters think coronavirus will be contained “in the next few months”

Texas voters are concerned about the coronavirus and believe it presents a serious crisis, and they are deeply worried about the economy, unemployment and the health care system. But they also think the disease could be contained enough to return daily life to normal within a few months, according to […] Read more »

Americans prioritize staying home and worry restrictions will lift too fast

Health concerns still take precedence over economic concerns by a wide margin for Americans in their views on when to re-open the economy — both in what they want for the nation, and in what they’d do themselves. Many say they need to be confident the outbreak is over before […] Read more »

Americans’ Attitudes About Reopening for Business

The U.S. is grappling with the complex tension between efforts to contain COVID-19 on the one hand and efforts to rejuvenate the nation’s economy on the other. There is not much argument about the ultimate importance of either of these goals. The tension arises from competing perspectives on the relative […] Read more »