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Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 has stretched the U.S. social safety net and prompted federal legislation designed to ameliorate the pandemic's health and economic impacts. We surveyed a nationally representative cohort of 1222 U.S. adults in April 2020 and November 2020 to evaluate changes in public opinion about 11...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34762967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106873 |
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author | Topazian, Rachel J. Hatton, C. Ross Barry, Colleen L. Levine, Adam S. McGinty, Emma E. |
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description | COVID-19 has stretched the U.S. social safety net and prompted federal legislation designed to ameliorate the pandemic's health and economic impacts. We surveyed a nationally representative cohort of 1222 U.S. adults in April 2020 and November 2020 to evaluate changes in public opinion about 11 social safety net policies and the role of government over the course of the pandemic. A majority of U.S. adults supported six policies at both time points, including policies guaranteeing two weeks of paid sick leave; enacting universal health insurance; increasing the federal minimum wage; and increasing government spending on construction projects, business tax credits, and employment education and training. From April to November 2020, public support was stable for nine of the 11 policies but declined nearly 10 percentage points for policies guaranteeing two weeks paid sick leave (from 76% support in April 2020 to 67% support in November 2020) and extending unemployment insurance benefits (51% to 42%). Declines in support for these two policies were concentrated among those with higher incomes, more education, in better health status, the employed, and those with health insurance. The share of respondents believing in a strong role of government also declined from 33% in April to 26% in November 2020 (p > 0.05). Despite these shifts, we observed consistent majority support for several policies enacted during the pandemic, including guaranteeing paid sick leave and business tax credits, as well as employment-related policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-86204052021-11-26 Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic Topazian, Rachel J. Hatton, C. Ross Barry, Colleen L. Levine, Adam S. McGinty, Emma E. Prev Med Article COVID-19 has stretched the U.S. social safety net and prompted federal legislation designed to ameliorate the pandemic's health and economic impacts. We surveyed a nationally representative cohort of 1222 U.S. adults in April 2020 and November 2020 to evaluate changes in public opinion about 11 social safety net policies and the role of government over the course of the pandemic. A majority of U.S. adults supported six policies at both time points, including policies guaranteeing two weeks of paid sick leave; enacting universal health insurance; increasing the federal minimum wage; and increasing government spending on construction projects, business tax credits, and employment education and training. From April to November 2020, public support was stable for nine of the 11 policies but declined nearly 10 percentage points for policies guaranteeing two weeks paid sick leave (from 76% support in April 2020 to 67% support in November 2020) and extending unemployment insurance benefits (51% to 42%). Declines in support for these two policies were concentrated among those with higher incomes, more education, in better health status, the employed, and those with health insurance. The share of respondents believing in a strong role of government also declined from 33% in April to 26% in November 2020 (p > 0.05). Despite these shifts, we observed consistent majority support for several policies enacted during the pandemic, including guaranteeing paid sick leave and business tax credits, as well as employment-related policies. Elsevier Inc. 2022-01 2021-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8620405/ /pubmed/34762967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106873 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Topazian, Rachel J. Hatton, C. Ross Barry, Colleen L. Levine, Adam S. McGinty, Emma E. Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | Public support for U.S. social safety net policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | public support for u.s. social safety net policies throughout the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8620405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34762967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106873 |
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