After Mitt Romney’s disastrous performance with Latino voters in 2012, some election observers have suggested Jeb Bush is the obvious candidate to help Republicans win over Latino voters. Bush’s supposed advantages are based on three specific observations—that the Bush family has historically had a more positive relationship with this community […] Read more »
American Consumers Getting Mojo Back as Wages Start Rising
Bigger paychecks are giving American consumers reason to believe again. The University of Michigan’s preliminary consumer sentiment index for June rose to 94.6, topping all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists, from a reading of 90.7 last month, figures showed Friday. Households were the most upbeat about their wage prospects […] Read more »
Poll Finds Younger Generations Are Redefining Path To Success
Younger Americans are shifting how they achieve the shared American goals of family, homeownership and career as they face new, evolving challenges, finds a new poll released today by The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) and National Journal. The 23rd Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll explores Americans’ priorities and expectations for […] Read more »
Majority Favor Same-sex Marriage; Two-thirds Believe Supreme Court Will Rule to Legalize
When the Supreme Court issues its decision on the legality of same-sex marriage at the end of the month, nearly two-thirds (65%) of Americans believe that the court will overturn state bans preventing same-sex couples from marrying and make same-sex marriage legal nationwide. Only one-quarter (25%) of the public says […] Read more »
What do women really want in the workplace?
Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), as part of its principal Dollars and Sense Economics and Women at Work projects, commissioned Evolving Strategies (ES) to conduct a national Causal Conjoint Optimization (C2O) experiment to determine American women’s preferences in the workplace: What really matters to women – mothers and non-mothers, and those […] Read more »
Give to Those at the Bottom? Sure, as Long as They Stay There
When it comes to reducing inequality, Americans may be open to bolder solutions for reining in those at the top than for ones boosting people at the bottom. But sometimes that depends on how close to the bottom they are. CONT. Noam Scheiber, New York Times Read more »