{"id":652159,"date":"2020-04-16T03:55:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652159"},"modified":"2020-04-16T03:55:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T07:55:45","slug":"harris-poll-most-americans-want-government-intervention-to-reduce-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=652159","title":{"rendered":"Harris Poll: Most Americans want government intervention to reduce inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that a majority of Americans now say the federal government should actively seek to reduce inequality, amid the worsening economic crisis produced by COVID-19. A national survey from Harris Insights &amp; Analytics of 2,018 Americans, conducted April 7-9, 2020, finds that 78% of Americans agree that &#8220;considering the spread of coronavirus in the United States and its impact on the economy and the American people,&#8221; it is &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;very important&#8221; that &#8220;the U.S. government commit to reducing economic inequality&#8221; over the next year, through &#8220;raising the minimum wage&#8221; and &#8220;taxing households making more than $250,000 a year to guarantee health care coverage to all Americans who lack access.&#8221; Only 21% feel reducing inequality through these actions is &#8220;not very important&#8221; or &#8220;not at all important.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-04-harris-poll-americans-intervention-inequality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Harris Poll: Most Americans want government intervention to reduce inequality<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll finds that a majority of Americans now say the federal government should actively seek to reduce inequality, amid the worsening economic crisis produced by COVID-19. A national&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}