America’s Hidden Common Ground on Renewing Democracy
This Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground survey, which is also part of Public Agenda’s ongoing series of Yankelovich Democracy Monitor surveys, was fielded in May 2021. The research updates and expands on findings from Public Agenda’s two previous Yankelovich Democracy Monitor surveys, published in 2019 and 2020. Findings include: Most Americans think our democracy…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on Overcoming Divisiveness
This Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground survey, fielded in February 2021, finds a powerful consensus across political affiliations that the nation needs to move beyond the destructive divisiveness that plagues our politics. It also finds common ground on several approaches to overcoming divisiveness. Findings from this research update and expand on Public Agenda’s 2019…
Read MoreEssential Educators: Teacher and Parent Views on COVID-19
After a challenging fall semester, a national survey from Public Agenda finds that K-12 teachers and parents are largely on the same page regarding education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Just over half of both teachers and parents feel that their communities value teachers more now than before the pandemic. While only one-third of parents think…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on Economic Opportunity and Inequality
Economic Opportunity and Inequality: A Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos Hidden Common Ground Survey Americans across the political spectrum support many measures to create good jobs and increase opportunity. These include infrastructure investments, retraining programs, affordable childcare, raising the minimum wage, and incentives for businesses to keep jobs in the U.S. An 80% majority of Americans supports…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on Immigration
This report explores the views and values of the American public on immigration, including how much change people think the immigration system needs, their goals and priorities for changing it, and their views on various proposals for doing so. Drawing on a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos national survey of American adults and four focus groups, the…
Read MoreGreater Voice, Greater Impact: Americans’ Views on Making Democracy Work for Everyone
Greater Voice, Greater Impact: Americans’ Views on Making Democracy Work for Everyone The Second Report from the Annual Yankelovich Democracy Monitor From impeachment and divisive rhetoric to an aging infrastructure and runaway health care costs, Americans have long faced evidence that neither our politics nor our government functions as it should. The 2020 coronavirus pandemic…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on Racism and Police Reform
America’s Hidden Common Ground on Racism and Police Reform: Results from a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos snapshot survey Most Americans want at least some change to policing or law enforcement. More than half of Americans want at least some change to policing or law enforcement, including 55% of Americans who want either major change or to…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on the Coronavirus, Part 2
America’s Hidden Common Ground on the Coronavirus: Results from the second wave of a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos survey of Americans’ views on reopening their communities Americans see the virus as a personal threat: Regardless of political affiliation, Americans see the pandemic as more of a threat to their physical health than to their mental health…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on the Coronavirus, Part 1
America’s Hidden Common Ground on the Coronavirus: Results from a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos Snapshot Survey According to a new Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos Hidden Common Ground Survey, Americans are aligned on the large threat that COVID-19 poses to the United States, the stock market and the global economy, as well as the steps the government should…
Read MoreAmerica’s Hidden Common Ground on Creating Good Jobs
America’s Hidden Common Ground on Creating Good Jobs: Results from a Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos Snapshot Poll A new Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos Hidden Common Ground Poll finds that just over half of Americans are worried about being able to maintain their standard of living over the next few years (53%). Split by party affiliation, Democrats are…
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