In a June survey, Data for Progress polled voters about their beliefs about police, police violence, the recent protests, and proposed reforms. Here, we focus on responses broken out according to age.
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Between early April and late May, only 11 percent of ads aired by Democrats and their affiliated SuperPACs promoted Biden.
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The protests following George Floyd’s murder have lead to wide ranging discussion on the role of police in American society. The way in which a militarized police state brutalizes and discriminates against black Americans has, once again, been exposed.
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We found that 65 percent of likely voters believe that a police officer murdered George Floyd, while only 10 percent of voters would describe Floyd’s death as a “tragic accident.”
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Concern about the coronavirus epidemic in the United states remains high, but is down 6 percentage points from April 14th to 84 percent.
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The rise of the Tea Party and President Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016 prompted commentators to reconsider the relationship between political parties and American democracy.
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The federal poverty line serves as the basis for the provision of many essential governmental services, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, and housing assistance.
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We are starting to see a dip in worry and concern over the coronavirus outbreak. For example, this was the first week in which the share of Americans who were very or somewhat worried about the outbreak dropped below 70 percent.
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Just as educating children benefits the entire society, keeping them healthy and restoring them to health when they are sick is important for all of us. Perhaps that is why expanding Medicare to children is so popular.
A Data for Progress poll conducted in April found that an overwhelming sixty percent favor “extending universal health care to all American children by giving all Americans under the age of 26 coverage in a government health plan modeled off of Medicare, known as ‘Medicare for Kids.’” That percentage jumps to 71 percent among those under age 45 and an even more overwhelming 82 percent of Democrats.
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Of the five boroughs, the Bronx has the most coronavirus infections per capita, including over 41,700 confirmed cases and 3,247 confirmed deaths.
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There continues to be higher levels of trust in state governments (67 percent) to handle the Coronavirus pandemic than in the Federal government.
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During a global pandemic, the Trump Administration is prioritizing the profits of polluters over the health of the American people. Money designated to help families, workers and small businesses survive the COVID-19 public health crisis is instead being diverted to giant oil corporations.
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