50 State COVID-19 survey: Public Support for a Fifth COVID-19 Relief Package

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Oct 1, 2020, 10:21:55 PM10/1/20
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Just out:  our newest report from our 50-state COVID-19 survey, on Public Support for a Fifth COVID-19 Relief Package (no embargo), from Harvard/Northeastern/Rutgers/Northwestern. Note that we have data on all 50 states + DC in the report re support for the relief package, and different parts of the relief package.

Some top level results: 

(1) large majorities of Americans overall, and in every state, support a new relief package
(2) direct cash assistance to individuals is the most popular potential provision of such a package
(3) aid to essential industries (like airlines) is the least popular potential provision
(4) Republicans and Democrats differ signifiantly on their most- and least-preferred provisions, though both strongly support a relief package
(5) Only 30% of respondents who said they are unemployed indicated that they received the $300 or $400 unemployment insurance supplements made available through President Trump’s August executive action. Of those, only 2% said that they received the full $400.

Please feel free to contact any of the authors listed above.  

David Lazer

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
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Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

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