Memo: Voters Want A Public Option for Broadband, Child Care and Housing
By Ethan Winter Analyst, Data for Progress
Likely voters also favor massive public investments in infrastructure
Executive Summary
As part of a December 2020 survey, Data for Progress polled 1,116 likely voters nationally to measure attitudes toward the creation of public options for broadband, child care, and housing, and government-directed investments in infrastructure.
We find high levels of support for all four of these proposals and that likely voters prefer government-run public options to tax credits. Typically positioned as a “moderate alternative,” tax credits have often been pitched to voters as a way to access quality housing, child care, and internet, and finance infrastructure spending. What these results should make plain is that the electorate not only wants the government to deliver essential social infrastructure but that they want it to be straightforward, accessible, and visible.
