July 13, 2021- Following the growing importance of crime and gun violence for the country, we examine how personal experience and news source drive how Americans feel about law and order and police reform. At the same time, many of America’s remote workers are beginning to think about other pre-pandemic worries (namely, the office).
As crime grows in importance for Americans, a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll unpacks how Americans feel about law and order and police reform:
· Personal experience with violent crime in the past year linked to favoring police reform
· News consumption influences how likely Americans are…
June 22, 2021- Younger Americans and people in cities feel positive about Pride, a month dedicated to celebrating self-acceptance, history, and the legal struggle LGBTQ+ people face. Meanwhile, as summer gets underway, some Americans want to unplug for their summer vacation:
- The closer Americans live towards a metro center, the more positively they view Pride
- Younger LGBTQ+ people and their allies more likely to have strong opinions on Pride
And they show signs of wanting a break from all the bad news of the past year:
May 25- On the anniversary of George Floyd’s death, the nation reflects back on a year of renewed focus on race in America.
Stories this week:
- Most believe America still has a way to go on race
- Black Americans 3x more likely to have police draw a gun or taser on them
- One year later: America divided on legacy of 2020 protests
- The pandemic hits Black and Hispanic Americans’ health and finances harder
- A majority believe that Asian Americans experienced discrimination as a result of COVID-19
Most believe America still has a way to go on race
Six in ten Americans believe that the nation still has work to do to…
May 18 — Some Americans report improving mental health as fears about returning to “normal” pre-COVID life recede. Meanwhile, Americans are feeling more secure about their purchasing power.
Stories this week:
Mental health improves as fears about COVID recede
Mental health shows signs of improving for some as Americans grow less fearful about returning to their pre-COVID…
April 27, 2021 — From the gloom of a COVID winter to a new reemergence and optimism, the contrast between January and April 2021 could not be starker.
Stories this week:
Biden’s first 100 days
As President Joe Biden approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, the nation is at an inflection point…
April 20, 2021- Americans are making plans to travel and socialize in summer 2021; but have mixed views on vaccine passports and needing to know employees’ vaccination status before patronizing businesses.
Stories this week:
- Young people driving changing perspectives on cannabis
- American’s different climate change realities
- Americans hesitant about vaccine passport
- Staff vaccination will be important in getting some to patronize businesses
- Summer is (kind of) back!
- Younger Americans don’t check their mail
Young people driving changing perspectives on cannabis
While many Americans aren’t completely convinced about the upside of legalizing cannabis, few also believe in the harmful effects critiques of cannabis tout either, Ipsos polling finds.
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April 7, 2021 — As America begins to emerge from the pandemic, Americans work to figure out their own ‘new normal.’
Stories this week:
- All are not equally catching the economic boom
- How Americans plan to spend their stimulus check
- Americans are going out, vaccinated or not
- Americans are getting reacquainted with themselves
All are not equally catching the economic boom
People at the top of the income distribution continue to express the greatest economic confidence, but people at the bottom have started finally making gains as well.
At the start of the pandemic, all Americans — rich and poor alike — experienced a major decline in their…
Parents are rounding the bend on a year that brought unique obstacles for them. From financial problems to childcare to schooling, being a parent in 2020 was difficult.
Heading into the new year, parents are feeling more optimistic about how 2021 will treat them. They are more likely than people who don’t have kids to believe that next year will be better for their physical health, personal finances, home, and mental health.
That might be in part be because, in a lot of ways, many families feel that they have already hit the bottom. …
This year, people had to rethink core parts of living — grocery shopping, seeing friends and family, how or where to work — to accommodate a virus and all the amorphous risks that go with it. But when people turned to government agencies and political leaders for answers, the response was confusing and often layered with partisan politics.
For starters, nearly all Americans believe that their federal and state government has a role to play in responding to the pandemic. But as the pandemic lingered, Americans’ faith in the government slowly sank. Starting barely above water in the early days…
As the country rounds the bend on the ninth month of living with COVID-19, the pandemic economy is deepening the existing inequities in the labor market, particularly for women and, more acutely, women of color.
There are two reasons for the uneven impact the COVID economy has had on women: the first is that the pandemic has impacted sectors that skew more female in their workforce, like the retail, restaurant, and hospitality industries; and the second is that women often have to take on more childcare responsibilities in remote learning situations.
The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics…
Sarah Feldman
Data journalist @ipsos writing about American public opinion.
