Public Opinion Strategies

Last month, 58.6% of working-age Americans were actually working. It must be good times for working folks, right? Guess again: the percentage of working-age Americans actually working has held stagnant since October of ‘09 when it dropped out of the 60% range just a couple of months after President Obama was sworn in the first [...] Read more

It has been over two years since the bloody fighting in Syria began between President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and anti-government rebels. Despite the limited attention from the U.S. public where only 15% of Americans admit to following the news about the civil war in Syria “very closely” (Gallup, May, 2013), the civil war has [...] Read more

Any discussion of immigration reform invariably brings to mind the question of how to deal with those people already living in America illegally.  This question of deportation versus providing a way for those here illegally to remain in the country has become highly charged politically, especially among the traditional partisan bases of the two major [...] Read more