Public Pulse


Only 1 in 5 voters agree with GOP's rigid opposition to any tax increases in a deficit-reduction deal

Source
Gallup Poll. "On Deficit, Americans Prefer Spending Cuts; Open to Tax Hikes." July 13, 2011. For more polling on the American Majority, go to OurFuture.org/
americanmajority
.

Source

Source

Tech trade deficit with China costs US 627,700 jobs 2001-2008, could exceed $90 billion in 2010

Source
U.S. Census Bureau. "Trade in Goods with Advance Technology Products." Job statistic from Robert E. Scott, "Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs," Economic Policy Institute. March 23, 2010. Other research from MBG Information Systems. Click here for a larger version of this chart.

Profits Up, Jobs Lagging: Employment Down 4% Since October 2008; corporate profits up 57% since third quarter 2008

Source
NELP Employment Data Update. National Employment Law Project. August 6, 2010.

Jobs lost, unemployment benefits cut due to congressional inaction on jobs

Source
Erica Williams, et al. "New Fiscal Year Brings More Grief for State Budgets, Putting Economic Recovery at Risk." Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. June 29, 2010.
Heather Boushey, et al. "Today's Unemployment Crisis By The Numbers." Center for American Progress and National Employment Law Project. June 29, 2010.

6.1 million people have been unemployed 27 weeks or longer

Source
Bureau of Labor Statistics, "The Employment Situation—February 2010," March 5, 2010. Also see Armand Biroonak, "Jobs By Sector Tell a Bleaker Story," OurFuture.org, March 5, 2009.

30 million Number of Americans<br />
working part time who want to work full time; $810 million in potential economic activity lost each day these people remain underemployed

Source
Gallup Poll. "Underemployed Report Spending 36% Less Than Employed." February 23, 2010. Dollar figure based on $27 daily average spending gap between persons who are full-time workers and those who are underemployed.

Unemployed 27 weeks or more: 6,313,000

Source

Far more people responding to a recent Pew Research poll said the nation's top priority should be "strengthening the economy" or "improving the jobs situation" than said "reducing the budget deficit."
Pulse-Pew-Strengthen-economy.gif

Source
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. "The Public's Political Agenda." January 25, 2010.