Black suppose tank hopes outcomes will present steerage to policymakers
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON — The Joint Middle for Political and Financial Research launched the primary in a sequence of survey outcomes — “Constructing a Extra Inclusive Agenda: A Survey of Congressional Priorities Throughout Race” — that tracks what Individuals say Congress ought to prioritize.
As a part of its Information for Black America Challenge, the Joint Middle partnered with NORC on the College of Chicago to survey greater than 1,200 Individuals throughout race and ethnicity to grasp the significance of priorities for members of Congress. Individuals had been surveyed on insurance policies associated to racial fairness, jobs and expertise coaching, tax coverage, and regulating expertise. The Joint Middle might be releasing topical survey outcomes over the following a number of weeks.
With the 118th Congress being probably the most numerous in historical past — about 25 p.c determine as individuals of shade — the governing physique has the ability to provide extra inclusive laws that higher represents the 41 p.c of the American inhabitants who determine as individuals of shade. As Congress works on a number of priorities via the tip of the 12 months, most instantly passing a federal funds to avert a authorities shutdown, the Joint Middle is releasing the survey outcomes to tell members of what Individuals say they need to be prioritizing.
“Members of this more and more numerous Congress should work collectively to enact extra inclusive insurance policies to profit Individuals throughout race and ethnicity. Given the assorted necessary coverage priorities earlier than this Congress, we needed to listen to what Individuals throughout differing races and ethnicities imagine must be high priorities for members of Congress. The survey outcomes must be a guiding gentle for Congress to shift its priorities to what the American individuals want,” stated Jessica Fulton, interim president and vice chairman of coverage for the Joint Middle.
Dr. LaShonda Brenson, senior researcher on the Joint Middle who leads the suppose tank’s Hill Range work, stated, “By means of our sequence of survey outcomes, Congress can see what the American public needs them to prioritize. The outcomes are a name to motion — a basic precept of democratic governance for Congress to signify the pursuits and voices of their constituents.”
Respondents had been requested to guage a number of difficulty areas by way of their stage of significance, categorizing them as a high precedence, an necessary however decrease precedence, not too necessary a precedence, or one thing that shouldn’t be achieved. Topline outcomes embody:
Over half (52 p.c) of all respondents felt that guaranteeing each American has the fitting to vote must be a high precedence for members of Congress, making it the highest precedence of all coverage points surveyed.
Black respondents (58 p.c) are extra probably than White respondents (53 p.c), Asian-Pacific Islander, multiracial, different non-Hispanic respondents (50 p.c) and Hispanic respondents (44 p.c) to imagine that each American has the fitting to vote must be a high precedence for members of Congress.
Practically half (49 p.c) ranked rising the federal minimal wage of $7.25 an hour and guaranteeing that employers pay wages that sustain with the price of requirements as a high precedence.
Black respondents (62 p.c) are considerably extra probably than Asian-Pacific Islander, multiracial, different non-Hispanic respondents (52 p.c), and White and Hispanic respondents (each 47 p.c) to imagine that rising the federal minimal wage of $7.25 an hour and guaranteeing that employers pay wages that sustain with the price of requirements as a high precedence.
Forty-eight p.c of respondents ranked lowering the federal deficit as a high precedence.
White respondents (51 p.c) are extra probably than Black respondents (46 p.c), Asian-Pacific Islander, multiracial, different non-Hispanic respondents (45 p.c) and Hispanic respondents (37 p.c) to rank lowering the federal deficit as a high precedence.
Solely 15 p.c of respondents say that passing laws to remove funding from the IRS must be a high precedence.
Black respondents (21 p.c) are extra probably than Asian-Pacific Islander, multiracial, different non-Hispanic respondents (18 p.c), white respondents (15 p.c) and Hispanic respondents (13 p.c) to say that passing laws to remove funding from the IRS must be a high precedence.
Fifteen p.c of respondents say that regulating firms’ use of expertise to make selections about job interviews and loans must be a high precedence.
Black respondents (28 p.c) are extra probably than Asian-Pacific Islander, multiracial, different non-Hispanic respondents (22 p.c), Hispanic respondents (17 p.c) and White respondents (12 p.c) to say that regulating firms’ use of expertise to make selections about job interviews and loans must be a high precedence.
Information from greater than 1,200 Individuals was collected on-line between Jan. 26-30, 2023 utilizing NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak panel. The Information for Black America Challenge goals to tell decision-makers concerning the challenges Black Individuals face and supply students with worthwhile knowledge to make use of sooner or later. This initiative will periodically discipline surveys and conduct focus teams on numerous financial and political problems with specific relevance to Black communities.
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