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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums(Gallop) Americans' Views on 10 Key State of the Union Proposals (A number do well in polls)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/181256/americans-views-key-state-union-proposals.aspx?
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Gallup data reveal how Americans' views line up with 10 key issues raised by President Barack Obama in his 2015 State of the Union address Tuesday night.
1. Raising the minimum wage
We still need to make sure employees get the overtime they've earned. And to everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.
Gallup last asked about raising the minimum wage in November 2013, and at that time 76% were in favor of raising it to $9 an hour (from the current $7.25), while 22% were opposed. This included 91% of Democrats in favor, 76% of independents and 58% of Republicans. Separately, Gallup found 69% in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $9 along with establishing automatic inflation-based increases.
Despite this broad support, just 26% of Americans in 2014 said the minimum wage issue is extremely imp
2. Laws to strengthen unions
We still need laws that strengthen rather than weaken unions, and give American workers a voice.
Americans always have been more likely to say they approve than disapprove of labor unions and have historically sympathized with unions over companies in labor disputes. At the same time, the public's appetite for strengthening unions is moderate at best. Thirty-five percent of Americans say they would personally like to see labor unions have more influence than they do today, compared with 27% who prefer less influence and 23% who want their influence kept the same. And Americans widely support right-to-work laws, which prohibit requiring workers to join unions or pay union fees as a condition of employment.
FULL story at link. Just remember this is Gallop
Story Highlights
A number of President Obama's SOTU proposals do well in polls
Raising minimum wage, infrastructure spending get high marks
One proposal Americans oppose: Closing Guantanamo Bay prison
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(Gallop) Americans' Views on 10 Key State of the Union Proposals (A number do well in polls) (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Jan 2015
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. How could they poll well in a supposedly RW nation?
Thing is, I wish some of those things had been in the first SOTU, before Republicans got historic control of both houses of Congress.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. There's only two things he proposed that have a snowball's chance in hell of being passed ....
The TPP and Endless War.