One of the major themes of election reporting in this campaign has involved “blue-collar” or “working class” support for Donald Trump. But few surveys ask people about their occupations today, so usually journalists treat class as equivalent to education. … Of course, education is associated with occupation, but how strong […] Read more »
Whom to Vote For? Employees Tend to Follow Their Leader
… The results of a new academic study looking at the power of chief executives over the politics of their employees is stunning and perhaps unsettling. Three business professors set out to examine “how the political preferences of C.E.O.s affect their employees’ campaign contributions and electoral choices.” The results of […] Read more »
Slim Majority Again Sees Unions as Helping Economy
A slim majority of Americans, 52%, say labor unions mostly help the U.S. economy, while 41% believe unions mostly hurt it. After a sharp 14-point decline between 2006 and 2009 in the percentage of Americans who believe unions mostly help the economy, public opinion is essentially back to what it […] Read more »
Fewer in U.S. Say Men and Women Have Equal Job Opportunities
Approximately half of U.S. adults believe women have equal job opportunities as men, although women themselves (43%) are significantly less likely than men (61%) to agree. The 52% of U.S. adults saying men and women have equal job opportunities is down slightly from 57% in 2008, mostly related to a […] Read more »
More than four in ten working adults think their work impacts their health
A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than four in ten working adults (44%) say their current job has an impact on their overall health, and one in four (28%) say that impact is positive. However, in the survey of more […] Read more »
How Falling Behind the Joneses Fueled the Rise of Trump
… Trump’s white working class supporters — who provide somewhere between 58 and 62 percent of his votes, according to data from NBC and ABC polls — have suffered a stunning loss of relative status over the past 40 years. Their wages have stagnated or declined; the ascendance of minorities […] Read more »