One of Gallup’s core missions is to measure and understand the attitudes of the American public on key policy issues of the day. In pursuit of that goal, Gallup recently began cataloging Americans’ attitudes about the potential effectiveness of specific proposals to fix the economy. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
The surprising number of parents scaling back at work to care for kids
More than three-quarters of mothers and half of fathers in the United States say they’ve passed up work opportunities, switched jobs or quit to tend to their kids, according to a new Washington Post poll. While it has long been clear that finding affordable, dependable child care is a daily […] Read more »
Despite Unrest, Blacks Do Not Feel More Mistreated by Police
Despite the significant public attention on confrontations between black citizens and police in Missouri, Maryland and New York over the past year, blacks in 2015 express virtually the same opinions about being mistreated by police as they did in 2013. This year, 18% of adult blacks say there has been […] Read more »
How Do Americans Really Feel About Vacation Days?
Does time off make Americans anxious? We can confirm only this: whatever it is we happen to be doing, most of us would rather be working. Or so it seems. CONT. Vanity Fair Read more »
The Second Roundtable on the White Working Class
Welcome to the second white working class roundtable, a project of The Democratic Strategist in collaboration with the Washington Monthly. … The present White working class roundtable is organized around a provocative strategy paper by leading opinion analyst Stan Greenberg that is entitled “The Fight for Working People Begins with […] Read more »
Trade politics
… The TPP may be good for that abstraction we call “the economy” and for those Americans already doing well, but, as written, there is little evidence it will help those who aren’t at the top, and indeed, it may well further erode their economic standing. Few Americans earned Ph.D.s […] Read more »