Public Opinion Strategies conducted a national telephone survey in January 2015 regarding Americans attitudes about mental health on behalf of The Kennedy Forum. The survey results show Americans believe mental health conditions are a serious public health problem and changes need to be made to the way we are handling mental health conditions in the […]
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Rebounding off of Dave Wilson’s post yesterday on who participates in NCAA tournament bracket games, it may also be important to take note of how much our nation spends on these gambling pools. Spending on bracket gambling has jumped three-fold from $2.5 billion in 2008 to an estimated $9 billion in 2015. This is despite the […]
As the 2015 NCAA Tournament begins, I thought it would be interesting to examine exactly who is taking the time to fill out tournament brackets. While studies show that March Madness costs businesses between one and two billion dollars in lost productivity nationwide each year, data from a HBO Real Sports/Marist Poll shows that just […]
Up until last week, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed headed for the Democratic nomination simply by coronation from her own party (and maybe the presidency itself if you listen to anyone in the national press corps). It’s hard to argue with their reasoning given Clinton’s initial lead in the polls, and the lack […]
President Obama’s State of the Union speech was one giant spiking of the football; linking his policies to America’s swelling economy and taking credit for the whole kit and caboodle. Strange he left out the real cause of it all: plummeting gas prices caused by an oil glut. The following chart should cure any doubts […]
