New National Survey Results:
Americans on Our Economy, Deficit and Debt
The results of a new national survey commissioned by the PGPF are now available! The most comprehensive study of public attitudes toward America's fiscal policies since our economic downturn, the results show that amidst our current financial crisis, Americans are intently focused on our nation's fiscal health and strongly support confronting our growing debt and deficit.
Among the survey's findings:
- Voters rank the need to address our budget challenges as a top priority for the Obama Administration, second only to the preeminent need to get the economy back on track and get Americans back to work.
- Americans see the threat to our future posed by our growing deficit and debt as more grave and significant than global warming, declines in education and manufacturing, and the prospect of a rogue nation developing a nuclear weapon.
- There is broad support for a bipartisan, beyond-the-Beltway approach to tackling these challenges in the form of a commission that would engage the public and make a series of recommendations on which Congress would be required to vote.
