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Americans Have a Different Plan to Grow the Economy
Conservatives are on a crusade to cut spending on everything but the military while preserving tax cuts for the rich. That’s their plan—but the public has a different agenda. In the recently released...
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Public Says Keep Medicare the Way It Is!
Last week, I reviewed polling data from 2011 showing how opposed the public was then to the conservative idea of cutting funding for the Medicare program and turning it into a fixed-amount voucher...
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Public Supports Infrastructure Spending to Create Jobs
Conservatives claim the only way to create jobs is to cut taxes and spending, which will magically induce businesses to invest at a furious rate. The public seems to understand, however, that in...
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2 Different Approaches to Deficit Reduction
It seems conservatives’ first approach to reducing the deficit is going after Social Security and Medicare. And their very last approach is getting rid of tax breaks for the rich. But it’s always worth...
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Stimulus Plan Not So Bad After All
Among conservatives, it is an article of faith that the stimulus plan was a complete waste of money and totally ineffective. They have also convinced themselves that the public shares their...
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Are We Past the Tipping Point on Support for Marriage Equality?
When President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality back in May, many speculated that his action might provoke a backlash against same-sex marriage. But that clearly has not...
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Just Say No to Voucherizing Medicare
On the issue of voucherizing Medicare, two things are very clear. First, conservatives are dead-set on trying to transform Medicare into a voucher program. Second, the public is dead-set against that...
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The Public Blames Bush and Favoring the Wealthy for Our Economic Problems
Conservatives are very sure of two things about our current economic problems. One is that these problems are mostly President Barack Obama’s fault. The other is that overregulation of the free market...
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Public Wants to Give Legalization a Chance
Conservatives’ ideas on immigration are pretty simple: Ramp up border enforcement to stop the flow of unauthorized immigrants into the United States and deport the ones already here. It’s not widely...
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Public Supports Raising Taxes on the Rich, Opposes Repealing Obamacare
Few things are more sacred to the conservative cause than not raising taxes, ever, especially on the wealthy. They keep hoping the public will get on board with their sacred cause, but the evidence...
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Public Rejects ‘You’re on Your Own’ Economics
Economist Jared Bernstein aptly summed up conservative views on the economy with the phrase “You’re on your own,” or YOYO. This YOYO economics posits that every individual should make his or her way in...
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What Do the Voters Want?
The 2012 presidential election is over, and President Barack Obama has been re-elected. Congress and the country now confront the question: What next? What message did the voters send about policy...
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Public Turns Against Repeal of Obamacare
Conservatives have spent a good chunk of this year trying to convince the public that Obamacare is the spawn of Satan and needs to be repealed in its entirety. For all their efforts, though, they seem...
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2 Things the Public Wants Policymakers to Remember
Everybody’s talking about the current fiscal showdown and the deals that might be cut to avoid it. There are at least two things the public wants policymakers to remember in all this frenetic...
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Public Supports Increased Spending in Key Areas
It’s not just taxes. A large part of the current fiscal showdown in Washington, D.C. is the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that will occur if Congress can’t come to an agreement to avoid...
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Public’s Dos and Don’ts on Handling the Fiscal Showdown
The debate on how to handle the so-called fiscal showdown is the focus of attention in Congress these days. Recent polls have given the public a chance to weigh in on its priorities in this debate. As...
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Sharing Love and Ideas on Valentine’s Day
SOURCE: AP/Mel EvansWith Ellis Island in the background, a group of immigrant rights advocates march on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, in Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey.This Valentine’s...
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What the Public Really Thinks About Guns
SOURCE: AP/Damian DovarganesStudents Zoe Bell, 12, left, and her sister, Sophie, 9, join Los Angeles-area clergy, religious leaders, and citizens in an interfaith candlelight prayer vigil to end to gun...
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Acknowledging Our Mistakes in Iraq Would Prevent Us from Repeating Them
SOURCE: AP/ Marco Jose SanchezRay Jacques reads the San Francisco Chronicle's war special section inside a Starbucks coffee shop in San Francisco. Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, many members of...
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Building an All-In Nation
SOURCE: AP/Julie JacobsonAmericans are ready to support necessary and pragmatic policy investments to ensure that all people can participate fully in our economy.This report contains a correction. It...
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