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Americans Support More Stimulus: Polling on Potential Stimulus Policies to Meet the Scale of the Moment
From the Executive Summary: "[1] We find overwhelming, bipartisan support for an additional emergency relief bill. [2] Voters support a variety of proposals to provide relief to individuals during the pandemic including halting evictions/ foreclosures/utility shut offs, granting universal paid sick and family & medical leave, and providing free care for coronavirus treatment to everyone. [3] There is support for expanding cash assistance given to individuals from the oneoff $1,200 in the current package to a $2,000 per month payment."
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Swasey, Charlotte; Winter, Ethan; Sheyman, Ilya
2020-04
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Plan for a Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild America's Economy: Policy Proposals and Guidance
From the Introduction: "The global Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented economic crisis for the United States and the world. Leaders at each level of government must now confront this crisis with solutions scaled to the scope of the challenge, and the foresight to rebuild the economy for resilience and justice in the 21st century. [...] The Clean Jumpstart plan calls for major clean energy and infrastructure investments in stimulus legislation. This document provides a concrete and detailed plan with 11 policies and $320 billion in investment directly to state-run relief programs, giving states and cities greater access to federal financing, and investing in proven state-federal partnership programs for clean energy development and infrastructure. The plan further calls for 21 areas totalling over $1.2 trillion in immediate investment for federal programs that can help to stimulate and rebuild the economy right now."
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2020-05
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Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild America's Economy: Public Opinion Polling and Analysis
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support a host of proposals that could constitute a green stimulus package, and all fourteen proposals we tested enjoyed considerable margins of support. [2] The most popular proposal we tested was directing federal aid to small, independent, and family farms rather than to agribusiness. Voters supported this policy by a margin of 66 percentage points. [3] Support for a green stimulus is also bipartisan. For example, Republicans support the creation of a Climate Conservation Corps by a margin of 34 points."
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Winter, Ethan; NoiseCat, Julian Brave
2020-05
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What Americans Think About Worker Power and Organization: Lessons from a New Survey
From the Document: "The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented public health and economic crisis. But it also represents a crisis of worker voice. As recent labor protests and strikes have made clear, many essential workers are being asked to return to jobs where they have little or no control over their pay and working conditions. Meatpackers, warehouse workers, food deliverers, grocery store clerks, and health care aides are all having to choose between unemployment or low-wage jobs that put themselves, their customers, and their families at risk of coronavirus infection. Yet the pandemic only exacerbated longstanding inequalities in workplace standards: well before the coronavirus outbreak, many American workers lacked the voice they wanted from their jobs, including input over pay, benefits, and work routines. To better understand how Americans are thinking about worker power and organization in the coronavirus era, this memo summarizes results from a new survey of 1,181 likely voters."
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Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander, 1986-
2020-05
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Automatic Stabilizers Are Popular with Voters
From the Executive Summary: "[1] By a two-to-one margin, voters support Congress implementing policies to automatically increase social spending when there is an increase in unemployment. [2] Sixty-three percent of voters strongly prefer assisting those in need even if it increases government debt. [3] Voters are supportive of the unemployment insurance system, supporting it by a 61-percentage-point margin."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Voters Support Native American Healthcare and Treaty Rights
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support five proposals aimed at improving healthcare in Native American communities. The most popular was increasing funding for the Indian Health Service, which enjoyed a 54-percentage-point margin of support. [2] Voters support holding the federal government legally responsible for failing to uphold treaty obligations with Native American tribes, by a margin of 54 percentage points. [3] Support for all five of these proposals is bipartisan. For example, Republicans support targeting federal aid to hospitals and other essential services used by communities of color and Native American tribes, by a margin of 23 percentage points."
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NoiseCat, Julian Brave; Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild State Economies: Voters Support Flexible Aid for Cities and States
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus crisis has taken a sledgehammer to state budgets. Business closures have plummeted tax revenue at the exact same moment that expenditures are spiking. [...] States urgently need aid from the federal government so that they can, among several things, keep essential services running in the midst of this pandemic and continue to invest in long-term goals like fighting climate change."
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Winter, Ethan; Ganz, Jason; NoiseCat, Julian Brave
2020-05
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Protecting Rural Jails from Coronavirus
From the Executive Summary: "Rural communities have certain traits that make them particularly vulnerable in a pandemic. On the whole, people living in rural regions are poorer, older, and less healthy. One in three rural counties has a poverty rate over 20%. More than half of all births at rural hospitals are covered by Medicaid. Rural communities are quickly losing hospitals and health care providers. Small newspapers are closing across the heartland, and internet access in rural areas is often limited, so rural residents may not have accurate information about the pandemic or how to best respond. Many of these concerns are amplified in rural jails. People detained in rural jails are likely to be there because they cannot afford cash bail. Judges in rural courts often send people to jail for drug possession, in part because there are few diversion programs. Given the paucity of medical providers and other social services in rural areas, the criminal legal system is often used to address a range of social, emotional, and financial problems that elsewhere may be handled outside of the court system through community treatment or other programs. And people inside the jails may have prior substance use or other medical problems that are exacerbated in a pandemic. Perhaps most alarming, rural jails are frequently located in counties that lack hospital capacity to handle the coronavirus pandemic. [...] This report discusses specific challenges and responses to decarceration in rural communities in light of the coronavirus."
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Littman, Aaron; Sudeall, Lauren; Pishko, Jessica
2020-04
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California Voters Support Releasing People from Jails & Prisons to Protect Communities from COVID-19: Now Governor Newsom Must Act
From the Executive Summary: "Across the country and throughout the world, there has been wide recognition that reducing the number of people inside jails and prisons is critical to slowing the spread of the coronavirus-- both within these facilities and in the general public. [...] Simply put, this is a matter of our mutual survival. That is why doctors, reform advocates, judges, and law enforcement officials have embraced this decarceration strategy, which both conservative and liberal voters support. Decarceration is especially urgent in California, where prisons have been overcrowded for decades."
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Bazelon, Lara, 1974-; Barry, Kyle C.
2020-04
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Americans Support Suspending All Rent Payments
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters strongly favor a program of suspending and forgiving rent, backing it by a margin of 22 percentage points. [2] Voters under the age of forty-five are especially enthusiastic about suspending and forgiving rent, supporting it by a margin of 50 points. [3] By a 14-point margin, voters who self-identified as Republicans favor a more moderate proposal of suspending, but not forgiving, rent during the coronavirus crisis."
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Blank, Lew; Raghuveer, Tara
2020-04
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Concern Over the Coronavirus: Most Voters Are Worried About Lack of Paid Leave, Health Care, and Limited Federal Response
From the Executive Summary: "Voters are overwhelmingly concerned about the worsening coronavirus outbreak and deteriorating economic situation."
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Winter, Ethan; Sheyman, Ilya
2020-03
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California Prosecutors Must Do More to Protect Their Communities from Coronavirus: Policies & Polling
From the Executive Summary: "In recent weeks, the humanitarian disaster that doctors and public health experts predicted has turned into reality: coronavirus has reached prisons and jails in California and across the country, sparking outbreaks that threaten the lives of incarcerated people, staff, and surrounding communities. California's elected prosecutors--the district attorney in each county--are uniquely positioned to address this crisis. We know that the best and most urgent solution is releasing people from incarceration, creating space inside these cramped facilities to comply with social distancing guidelines, and preserving scarce medical resources. Some counties in California have started this process through the cooperation of sheriffs, prosecutors, and judges, but it hasn't been sufficient to slow the spread. Prosecutors have the power to do more by agreeing to quickly and safely release people from custody, both in local jails, and, thanks to a new law that gives prosecutors the discretion to revisit prison sentences, the state prison system."
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Armour, Jody David; Barry, Kyle C.
2020-04
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Role of Overdose Prevention Sites in Coronavirus Response
From the Executive Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic has compounded North America's overdose crisis. [...] In responding to these overlapping public health emergencies, we must draw on the full spectrum of science-driven prevention measures. Such measures include rapid scale-up in access to critical overdose prevention medications, including methadone, buprenorphine, and the opioid antidote naloxone. But we must also expand the limited toolkit of overdose prevention efforts in the United States to include overdose prevention sites. Also known as 'supervised consumption facilities' or 'safe injection sites,' these are safe, supervised spaces to use previously-obtained drugs and access essential care and support services. With nearly 300 such facilities operating worldwide, overdose prevention sites have shown overwhelming evidence of their public health benefit and cost-effectiveness. Despite these well-documented successes, advocates have been unsuccessful at opening a legally-sanctioned overdose prevention site in the United States. In the context of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, such sites are especially vital because of their potential to prevent both overdose fatalities and the spread of infectious diseases. By handling numerous medical emergencies, they also promise to conserve health care system resources during a time when these resources are acutely scarce. As coronavirus is fundamentally redefining the status quo, the imperative for overdose prevention sites has never been more urgent. The American public agrees: In new polling, we found substantial bipartisan support for overdose prevention sites and other harm reduction solutions as part of the response to coronavirus."
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Johnson, Sterling; Beletsky, Leo
2020-05
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California Housing Precarity in the Context of Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "Earlier this year, California Governor Gavin Newsom gave a speech where he spoke about the extreme level of homelessness in the state, saying, the 'California Dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families, children, and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed.' [...] The State must take immediate action to provide long-term protection for renters and homeowners, but must not forget about residential landlords, many of whom find themselves facing financial uncertainty due to the coronavirus. The solution is for California to forgive rent payments but also directly compensate residential landlords for missed rental payments, which will have the benefit of ensuring that residential landlords are able to make their own fixed payments. As shown through polling by Data for Progress of Californians, voters want their government officials to protect people from losing their homes and falling into financial despair."
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Godsil, Rachel D.; Ronen, Hillary
2020-04
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Need for a True Wealth Tax to Support Those Most in Need Due to the Coronavirus
From the Executive Summary: "It is time for a wealth tax. The medical and economic hardships produced by the coronavirus pandemic are falling most heavily on people who were already most disadvantaged. [...] A wealth tax to fund the relief effort gives meaning to shared sacrifice in the face of a universal threat. An extraordinary catastrophe, which afflicts the entire nation, should be paid for not out of income-flows that fund ordinary public policy in normal times, but rather by a one-time charge against the nation's accumulated stock of wealth. In other words, a wealth tax. This one-time wealth tax--of 5 percent levied on the richest 5 percent of American families--is good politics. It generates deep and wide support as shown by recent polling conducted by Data for Progress."
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Markovits, Daniel, 1969-
2020-05
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Americans Urgently Need More Aid to Alleviate the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: 19 Percent of Voters Have Already Missed Payment on a Regular Bill
From the Document: "As Congress debates another round of aid to Americans and businesses, many people are already struggling. The $1,200 checks provided in the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] act are a positive step, but have failed to meaningfully change the financial situation of Americans who are struggling with an unprecedented financial pinch due to the coronavirus. A new poll from Data for Progress, conducted on May 4th 2020, finds that the financial situation of many Americans is extremely precarious, and that without additional aid we risk severe personal and economic harm. Americans are already having to make hard tradeoffs due to the economic situation, and they lack the cushion of savings or aid needed to survive the crisis. Nearly 20 percent of Americans report already skipping a bill, and a majority of voters anticipate having trouble covering basic costs within the next 3 months, 35 percent within one month. Among those who have already struggled to meet all obligations, the most commonly skipped is a utility bill (power, water, gas), followed by a rent or mortgage payment."
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Sheyman, Ilya; Swasey, Charlotte
2020-05
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Helping People Transition from Incarceration to Society During a Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "In the best of times, the reentry process is extraordinarily difficult and emotionally taxing. Returning people are rarely truly free, as they typically must navigate a long list of onerous rules. [...] But these are not normal times. The coronavirus pandemic is drastically compounding the challenges of reentry. With the economy in freefall, some requirements of supervised release-- like obtaining housing and employment--are virtually unattainable. People reentering society are facing increased risk of homelessness, as halfway housing is unavailable and their own families may be reluctant to take them in if they come from facilities with COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] infections. Increased reliance on communication over the phone and the web for health and other services make the digital divide among returning people literally a matter of life and death. The bottom line is that systems designed to assist reentry--crude and insufficient as they were--are no match for these times. Prisons and jails must release more people to reduce the risk of infection behind bars, but this effort must be coupled with major scale-up in reentry services."
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Johnson, Sterling; Beletsky, Leo
2020-05
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California's Sheriffs Must Do More to Save Their Communities from the Ravages of Coronavirus
From the Executive Summary: "The spread of coronavirus in California jails have rendered the conditions of confinement for inmates so unsafe that they constitute the kind of unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain that is contrary to contemporary standards of decency and violates constitutional rights. The Supreme Court of the United States has held that it violates Eighth Amendment prohibitions of cruel and unusual punishment to hold inmates in unsafe conditions that expose them to serious health risks from infectious diseases. Fortunately, there are measures to prevent an impending catastrophe, and polling from The Justice Collaborative and Data for Progress shows that the vast majority of people are in favor of measures that California sheriffs can take to reduce jail populations and prevent the spread of the disease. There is agreement across political parties that sheriffs should limit the number of arrests for misdemeanors, low-level offenses, and technical violations in order to reduce jail populations in light of the ongoing pandemic."
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Armour, Jody David; Pishko, Jessica
2020-04
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HEROES Act and Progressive Response to the Coronavirus is Popular with Voters
From the Document: "On May 15, 2020, House Democrats passed an expansive, three trillion dollar economic relief and healthcare package. The bill, called the 'Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act' or HEROES act, would send additional aid to states and cities hardpressed by a decline in tax revenue and an upsurge in expenses associated with the crisis. In addition, another round of $1,200 dollar checks would be distributed. Republicans are largely opposed to the measure and President Trump has already threatened to veto the law. As part of a survey conducted from May 13 to May 15, 2020, of 1212 likely voters weighted to be representative of the national electorate, Data for Progress sought to test support for the HEROES Act as well as several other proposals currently being debated."
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McElwee, Sean; Winter, Ethan
2020-05
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Stimulus for All Americans: Voters Support Including All Americans in Stimulus, Regardless of Immigration Status
From the Executive Summary: "[1] An overall majority of Americans support extending a number of benefits to immigrants regardless of immigration status--including the extension of free health treatment, monthly stimulus payments to taxpayers, the auto-renewal of visas to all immigrant essential workers and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients --as a means of mitigating the severity and duration of the coronavirus pandemic. [2] Given visa renewal offices are closed, automatically renewing visas and immigration benefits for essential workers in particular--nurses, doctors, agricultural workers and transportation for the duration of the state of emergency in the U.S.--is very popular, with 71 percent support overall. Support for this proposal was 59 percent among Republicans--a leap of nearly 20 percentage points above Republican support for each of the other proposals surveyed. [3] The American public believes including everyone in the United States in recovery efforts is best for public health and the economy."
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Masiello, Monica
2020-04
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Voters Support Sweeping Action to Address the Economic Fallout of the Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Of the twelve policies surveyed--including rent suspension, monthly cash payments, and the forgiveness of at least $10,000 in student debt--all enjoy at least a 30-percentage-point margin of support, with most policies netting even higher support. [2] The most popular proposal tested is the prohibition of debt collection, garnishing wages, and repossession during the pandemic. This policy is supported by a massive 71-point margin. [3] Support for all twelve proposals is bipartisan. All proposals enjoy at least plurality support from self-identified Republicans, with even progressive policies like student-debt forgiveness netting a 10-point margin of support."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-04
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Local Officials Should Quickly Reduce Jail Populations to Slow the Spread of the Coronavirus
From the Executive Summary: "As the number of cases of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in the United States continues to sharply increase, and as city, state, and federal officials take increasingly aggressive moves to contain the virus's spread, it is critical to understand the significant role our nation's more than 2,800 county jails may play in spreading the disease, not just within the facilities, but to vulnerable communities more broadly. In short: more than five million people cycle in and out of our jails each year; over a quarter of million just through the jails in New York State alone. Most spend only a few days or weeks behind bars, but while detained they are confined in close proximity to others and with poor medical care. Moreover, those in jails are not only disproportionately vulnerable to COVID-19 themselves, but they come from--and thus return to--communities with disproportionately vulnerable populations. All these factors combine to make jails powerful vectors of disease."
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Pfaff, John F.
2020-04
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Fighting the Coronavirus & Protecting the Unhoused: Policies & Polling
From the Executive Summary: "Unhoused populations are always vulnerable to health risks and disease, a vulnerability now heightened by the coronavirus epidemic and the spread of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]. People without homes more often come into contact with potentially infected surfaces and people, and those in emergency shelters must congregate in tight spaces and share facilities like showers and laundry. Shelters often have high-density, with people housed in bunk beds and cramped quarters. The prescribed 'social distancing' is not an option for the unhoused, nor can they follow the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines to stay in one's home. Without policies to protect the unhoused, they will remain at higher risk for contracting and transmitting COVID-19. [...] We asked voters about policies that would slow the spread of the coronavirus by protecting unhoused populations, and found significant bipartisan support."
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Johnson, Sterling; Beletsky, Leo
2020-03
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To Protect Our Children and Fight the Coronavirus, Release Youth from Juvenile Detention
From the Executive Summary: "Juveniles in detention are especially vulnerable during pandemics due to the additional stress and trauma associated with increased restrictions and isolation. Lockdown and confinement practices force solitary-like conditions on every juvenile in detention, including near-total isolation from family and loved ones, as well as from each other. This can result in serious long-term damage to each young person in juvenile detention, and there is no evidence to suggest the additional restrictions will inhibit pandemic acceleration. [...] In a national poll, we found broad bipartisan public support for releasing early some youth held in detention."
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Buckingham, Samantha
2020-04
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Policies & Polling on the Coronavirus and America's Immigrant Detention Crisis
From the Document: "Today, tens of thousands of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are at risk of contracting the coronavirus because of the current punitive immigration enforcement regime in the United States. Amidst the calls for 'self-isolation,' thousands of immigrants are herded into detention facilities, which, for all intents and purposes, are prisons, where we know that the risk of infection is great. The solution to this crisis is simple: release people from detention and stop detaining people in the first place. But will the United States government rise to the call?"
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Chapin, Violeta
2020-04
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Staggering Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic
From the Executive Summary: "We are just beginning to understand the scope of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout from the virus. With unemployment numbers literally off the charts, most states under lockdown and an uncertain future ahead, it is important for policymakers to understand the toll this is taking on the public, as well as noting the racial disparities that are being further exacerbated by this situation. And they need to act now because, through no fault of their own, millions of Americans have been laid off, had their hours reduced at their jobs or lost their health insurance. For many voters, the economic consequences of the Coronavirus have arrived."
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Swasey, Charlotte; Winter, Ethan; Sheyman, Ilya
2020-04-09
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Voters Support Raising the Minimum Wage for All Workers
From the Executive Summary: "The brutal economic fallout of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] has not been felt equally. As is always true in times of economic crisis, it is the lowest-paid, least-protected workers who suffer most. As is especially true now, when the economic downturn is the result of orders to stay at home and close certain businesses, it is workers in service industries, many of whom rely on tips for most of their pay, who have borne the greatest impact. While many white collar jobs have shifted from the office to the home, service industry jobs--long plagued by poverty wages and poor working conditions to begin with--have simply disappeared. Unfortunately, initial research is showing that a majority of these workers are not able to access unemployment benefits because they received a subminimum wage plus tips that did not total enough income to qualify for benefits. In new polling, we found overwhelming bipartisan support for policies that will build a more fair economy for all workers, and that will level the playing field between service workers who depend heavily on tips and the wider workforce. These policies have already been gaining popularity at the city, state, and national level. Now, as a still-spreading pandemic puts a spotlight on the vulnerability of low-wage workers, American voters are rejecting a 'return to normal,' and instead demand policy change to reimagine a more fair economy that allows everyone to earn a liveable wage."
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Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-; Barry, Kyle C.
2020-05
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Put People First Agenda Has Broad Support
From the Executive Summary: "[1] Voters support providing grants so small businesses keep workers on the payroll by a 75-percentage-point margin. [2] Voters support universal, monthly cash-payments that will continue for the duration of the crisis by a 67-percentage-point margin. [3] Voters support all people being provided with full health coverage for all coronavirus care and protections for all frontline workers by a 58-percentage-point margin. [4] Voters support the expanded use of absentee voting by a 48-percentage-point margin."
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Winter, Ethan
2020-04
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Voters Strongly Support the Essential Workers Bill of Rights
From the Executive Summary: "While office workers are figuring out Zoom calls and creating improvised desks, essential workers, defined as those performing work that may involve the safety of human life or the protection of property, are continuing to show up at their workplaces in order to keep grocery stores, hospitals, and other important services running. Many of these workers receive low wages and are offered few protections by their employers. They are unable to stay home for fear of losing their jobs, and are at increased risk of contracting coronavirus due to face-to-face interactions and frequent inability to social distance. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Congressman Ro Khanna of California have proposed an 'Essential Workers Bill Of Rights' designed to protect these workers by extending protections like paid sick leave, pay increases, free access to personal protective equipment like masks and gloves, and family and medical leave. They've called for this to be included in the fourth stimulus package to pass Congress, which many lawmakers have widely acknowledged as a necessary step. In our April 2020 survey, we find strong support for this Bill of Rights, with a total of 75 percent of voters in support. Support is marginally lower among Republicans, but still extremely strong at 73 percent. This is a remarkable level of non-partisan unity. Voters seem very on board with extending protections to this important class of employees as a centralized government measure, rather than waiting for individual employers to do so."
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Sheyman, Ilya; Swasey, Charlotte
2020-04
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New York Voters Support Providing Equal Pay Protections for All Workers
From the Executive Summary: "New polling reveals bipartisan support for policies that will build a fairer economy for all workers and level the playing field for service workers who depend heavily on tips and the wider workforce. These results show that New Yorkers support changing the status quo and do not want the economy to simply return to how it was pre-pandemic. Instead, officials and political actors should seize on these results to guarantee that we move toward a society in which all workers earn a liveable wage--one fair wage for all workers."
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Barry, Kyle C.; Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975-
2020-05
