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So Congress can do something…
Earlier this month, the Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent beginning in 2023. This would end the biannual changing of clocks and increase daylight in the evenings. ☀️
We polled likely voters on the changing of clocks and their support for making daylight saving time permanent. We find voters want to make daylight saving time permanent, and voters prefer more sun in the afternoons and evenings!
As our Deputy Press Secretary Devi Ruia (@DeviRuia) so elegantly explained earlier this week, “This polling makes it clear that a majority of Americans are cool, fun people that stay up late and like to have a good time — like the Data for Progress staff who you can spot up late doom scrolling on Twitter. Hopefully, the shift to permanent daylight saving time will show the remainder of Americans what they’re missing.”
Here are some other highlights from DFP this week:
The Political Effects of Saying BRB to the CTC
This week we built on our previous analysis of how the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) provided a political advantage to the Democratic party. We find an initial CTC effect on Biden approval of roughly four percent among monthly CTC recipients. Over the duration of the CTC expansion last year, Biden’s overall approval dropped substantially, and the size of the CTC effect slipped somewhat as well, though to a much smaller extent.
Read the full memo here.
Voters support strong labor standards for new jobs created by the bipartisan infrastructure law
Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) in November, which invests $550 billion in transit and rail networks, roads and bridges, broadband, and environmental resiliency, and creates good-paying jobs across the country. Our latest polling finds voters continue to support the IIJA by a +40-point margin, and voters also want the jobs created through the IIJA to have critical labor protections and standards:
Unions are based.
Read the full polling analysis here.
Voters Strongly Support the Reauthorization of VAWA
After four years since its authorization lapsed, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is finally once again law. And our latest polling shows voters are overwhelmingly supportive of this critical legislation to support efforts to investigate and prosecute violent crimes. Now it’s up to Congress to ensure this critical legislation never lapses again and that we do more to protect all women, however they identify, from violent crimes.
Read the full polling analysis here.
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