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Economy
11.17.2011
Should the Government Help Students Pay For College?
At the end of October, President Obama unveiled a series of executive orders calculated to address the country’s spiraling student debt crisis. The “Pay as You Earn” option would lower minimum l…
The latest PRRI/RNS Religion News Poll has some fascinating findings about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement. Two months after demonstrators took over New York’s Zuccott…
On the two-month anniversary of New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protests, a PRRI/RNS survey finds that most Americans favor increasing taxes on the wealthy.
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Politics & Elections
11.16.2011
Will Millennials Turn Out to Support Obama in 2012?
As the 2012 election season swings, little by little, into higher gear, political commentators are beginning to question President Obama’s ability to rouse the infectious energy among his followers…
The 2011 American Values Survey, released last week, showed across-the-board support for increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.00 an hour. Now, we’ve broken down our findings on…
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Politics & Elections
11.15.2011
Republicans Divided Over Support for Torture
On Saturday night, Republican presidential candidates Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman found themselves in an unlikely alliance on an important foreign policy issue: torture. Responding to Herman Cain and Mi…
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Economy
11.15.2011
Overwhelming Support for Increasing the Minimum Wage
Fully two-thirds of Americans (67%) favor increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.00 an hour. According to Public Religion Research Institute’s 2011 American Values Survey, strong majo…
Spotlight Analysis
Abortion & Reproductive Health
11.09.2011
Why Mississippi’s Voters Rejected the “Personhood” Amendment
Yesterday, Mississippi voters decisively rejected a ballot initiative that would have redefined the legal meaning of “personhood” to categorize fertilized eggs as people. Although polls leading up…
Survey Report
Economy
11.08.2011
The 2011 American Values Survey
PRRI’s 2011 AVS finds six in ten Americans say society would be better off if wealth distribution was more equal—but there are partisan and generational divides.
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
11.07.2011
Why Pro-Life Americans May Not Support the Mississippi “Personhood” Amendment
Tomorrow, Mississippi voters will decide whether to impose a set of far-reaching regulations on abortion and birth control, when they vote on Initiative 26, an amendment to the Mississippi constitutio…
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