|
Welcome back to the Data for Progress newsletter, your weekly update on our research, blog posts, and memos.
---
Now that the American Rescue Plan is law, the nation’s attention is turning to Biden’s second big bill: the Build Back Better plan, a massive infrastructure spending package. Data for Progress polled the Build Back Better plan and found it to be exceedingly popular: 69% of all voters support it, including half of Republicans.
When we dug into public support for the specific proposals likely to be included in the package — including repairing roads and bridges, expanding broadband, and pollution-free public transit — we found that every single proposal we tested also commanded majority support.
Here are some other highlights from DFP over the past week:
- In new polling this week with We Are Home Action, Data for Progress found that immigration policy related to undocumented immigrants isn’t a political liability — it’s a political opportunity. Voters support providing a pathway to citizenship for various groups of undocumented immigrants by large margins: they support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who pass a background check by a +44 point margin, for DREAMers by a +47 point margin, for essential workers by +39 points, and for agricultural workers by +35 points. Additionally, voters say that humane immigration reform is a big motivating factor behind their decision to vote Democrat: 80% of voters said ending family separations was important to their decision to vote for Democrats, and 72% of voters said the same about a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
- In a new poll of New York State by Data for Progress, we found that 73% of New York voters say they support raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers instead of making cuts to public programs in order to address the state’s budget deficit. This policy is also overwhelmingly supported by likely New York voters across party lines — 66% of Republicans, 64% of Independents, and 81% of Democrats say they favor raising taxes on the wealthy over cuts to health care, education, and other public services.
|
