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NEW ANALYSIS
Winning Back Working America: A PPI/YouGov Survey of Working-Class Attitudes
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Working Americans believe the last 40 years have not been kind to them. When surveyed in a new poll, a majority of working-class voters believe they are worse off. When asked which President from the past 30 years has done the most for average working families, voters choose Donald Trump by a wide margin (44% to Biden’s 12%). While the result is mainly driven by partisan divides, 51% of independents chose Trump.
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Working-class voters are a crucial demographic in competitive districts across the country and Democrats must make further inroads with working-class voters in order to build on recent election victories and assemble a winning coalition for 2024.
The Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) Project on Center-Left Renewal released a new poll commissioned by YouGov to help Democrats understand and frame more effective appeals to working-class voters.
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PPI President Will Marshall provides a summary and analysis of the results in the report “Winning Back Working America: A PPI/YouGov Survey of Working Class Attitudes.”
The poll contains two parts: a national survey of 860 non-college voters and oversamples of working-class opinions in seven 2024 presidential or Senate battleground states: Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Nevada. The poll surveyed registered voters without a four-year degree (voters with a two-year degree, high school diploma, or less).
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More on the recent PPI/YouGov poll:
Key Findings from the National Poll
⮕ PPI Press Release
Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future: New Poll Shows Working-Class Voters Want Lower Prices And Public Debt
⮕ Forbes
Taylor Maag, Director of Workforce Development Policy: A New Way to Scale Apprenticeships in America
⮕ PPI Blog
Ed Gresser, VP and Director of Trade and Global Markets: Working-class Americans on Trade Policy — No Clear Consensus on Past agreements, Little Support for New Tariffs, Strong Hope for Training and Apprenticeships
⮕ PPI Trade Fact of the Week
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New from the Experts
Diana Moss, PPI's Vice President and Director of Competition Policy: Unpacking the JetBlue-Spirit Merger: Why DOJ's Case for Consumer Choice Will Protect U.S. Flyers
⮕ PPI Report
WATCH: Debt and the National Budget, ft. Ben Ritz, Director of PPI's Center for Funding America's Future
⮕ CPAN's Washington Journal
Neel Brown, PPI's Managing Director: The Wrong Green Plan Can Mean Climate Disaster
⮕ The Messenger
LISTEN: The Future of Ukraine, ft. Tamar Jacoby, Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project
⮕ Liberal Europe Podcast
Trade Fact of the Week: U.S. Internet Policy is Suddenly Uncertain
⮕ PPI's Trade Fact of the Week
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Partisan Foreign Policy Extremists are Draining Respect for US Leadership
By Will Marshall
President of the Progressive Policy Institute
for The Hill
Storm clouds are gathering around the world. In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, tyrants and terrorists are on the march, while the country most able to stand up to them — the United States — is rancorously disunited.
Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis was a harrowing display of barbarism cracking through civilization’s fragile veneer. In Europe, Russian “dictator” Vladimir Putin is doubling down on his criminal war to compel Ukraine’s subservience to Moscow.
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NEW REPORT:
Disability and Changes in the Workplace
The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and the combination of advancing technology have brought about a major shift in the workplace. Between February 2020 and August 2023, the number of employed Americans with disabilities soared by 33% or 1.9 million. By comparison, the number of employed Americans without disabilities rose by only 1%, or 1.5 million. In other words, workers with disabilities account for 57% of the increase in employment since the beginning of the pandemic.
A new PPI policy brief, “Disability and Changes in the Workplace,” analyzes available data and discusses how the changing environments from the pandemic allowed workers with disabilities to find job opportunities that are a good match for their needs. Report author Dr. Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist of PPI, describes how the rapid adaptation of businesses to “work from home” during the pandemic allowed workers with disabilities to operate from a more congenial or accommodating environment.
Read and download the full report here and read more about how remote work has fueled the surge in jobs for workers with disabilities in The Messenger.
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🗓️ Mark Your Calendar!
Friday, December 1: US National Security and Ukraine: A Bipartisan Conversation with Representatives Don Bacon and Chrissy Houlahan, ft. Tamar Jacoby, Director of PPI's New Ukraine Project
⮕ Details here
Thursday, December 14: Harnessing Tailwinds on State and Local Land-Use Reform: A Bipartisan Playbook, ft. Richard Kahlenberg, Director of Housing at PPI
⮕ Details here
Be sure to keep an eye out for future PPI events!
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Radically Pragmatic
Taking on Ticketmaster: Why Competition Benefits Consumers
Dr. Diana Moss, Vice President and Director of Competition Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute, sits down with Russ D’Souza, co-founder of SeatGeek, and Terrell McSweeny, former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, to discuss the Ticketmaster and Live Nation monopoly.
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Staff Spotlight: Laura Duffy
Laura Duffy
Policy Analyst, Center for Funding America's Future
Laura Duffy recently joined PPI as a Policy Analyst with PPI's Center for Funding America’s Future. Prior to joining PPI, Laura was the Executive Research Coordinator at Rethink Priorities, a research organization that identifies impactful areas for philanthropic spending. Before joining Rethink Priorities, Laura was a Community Organizer for Forward Montana in her hometown of Great Falls. She also currently serves on the steering committee for the Center for New Liberalism, a grassroots organization that advocates for center-left policies that will create a more open and prosperous society.
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