Happy birthday ARP!Â
The American Rescue Plan is now one-year-old, and new polling with our friends at Invest in America finds that Americans still support the American Rescue Plan by a +39-point margin. This includes overwhelming support from Democrats (+85-point margin) and Independents (+45-point margin), as well as more than two-fifths of Republicans.
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We also find a majority of voters believe the American Rescue Plan:Â
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Helped businesses during the pandemic by 53-40%.Â
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Helped schools during the pandemic by 55-37%.
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Helped families by 57-37%.
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Improved healthcare by 56-35%.
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Not bad, ARP. Too bad passing the Build Back Better agenda wasn’t that easy…
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Some highlights from DFP this week:Â
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A Majority of Voters Back Biden on Ukraine — Once They Learn About It
New polling from earlier this week finds a majority of national likely voters back President Biden’s actions in response to Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine — once they learn about them.Â
Initially, we find the president underwater in approval on his response to Russia, with a slim plurality of voters — 45 percent of voters in support, 48 percent in opposition — disapproving of the president’s job performance on Ukraine. When voters learn about a number of recent actions the Biden Administration has taken against Russia, we find net approval jumps 36 points to a majority of likely voters — 63 percent — saying they back the president’s performance on Ukraine.
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We also asked voters about their attitudes toward recent administrative actions Biden has taken in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we find that a majority of voters support each of these measures.
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Read the full polling analysis here.Â
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One Thing Missing from the President’s State of the Union? Student Debt Relief
There was one policy notably absent from the President’s State of the Union address last week: student debt relief. Voters, meanwhile? Probably want to hear the President say something about it:
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Our latest polling with the Student Borrower Protection Center finds a majority of voters support pausing student loan payments through the end of 2022. Read the full polling here.
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We do jobs modeling now!!
We love being your go-to source for progressive polling, and now we’re expanding to jobs modeling, too! And our new analysis finds Congress’ bipartisan competition bill would create or preserve a total of between 2.6 million and 3.0 million jobs.
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If enacted, we find this bill would contribute between $44 billion and $51 billion per year to the U.S. GDP from 2022 through 2027. The analysis also includes a breakdown of job creation or preservation by state from 2022 to 2027:Â
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To learn more about the methodology of our jobs modeling, read our Introduction to Jobs Modeling memo on our site. And to read the full USICA jobs modeling memo, click here!
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