But the plan is much less popular than the relief bill passed earlier this year, and there are growing deficit concerns.
The CNBC All-America Economic Survey, a poll of 802 Americans nationwide, shows 36% of the public gives the infrastructure plan a thumbs-up compared with 33% who oppose it. The edge is within the poll s 3.5% margin of error and it s about half the level of support garnered by Biden s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act that Congress passed in March.
A large 31% slice of the public say they don t know enough to venture an opinion, suggesting an opportunity for each political party to make headway.
While almost a third of Republicans are willing to give Biden good marks on Covid, virtually none are willing to give him good marks on immigration, said Jay Campbell, partner at Hart Research Associates, and the Democratic pollster for the CNBC survey. If there was nothing else to talk about, I think this would be an enormous problem for Biden right now and it has the potential to grow into a bigger problem.
Another possible concern: 40% or the public believe Biden s policies are too liberal, compared to 26% who see them as neither too liberal nor too conservative and 6% who say they are too conservative. 28% say they are unsure.
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WASHINGTON Educators are flocking to get the vaccine, and the overwhelming majority are back teaching in person, a new national poll reveals. And they trust the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, President Biden, Dr Fauci and their union not Sean Hannity or Donald Trump to provide reliable information on the virus. The independent survey of AFT members , conducted by Hart Research Associates, indicates that the president’s pledge to make the vaccine available to all educators and support staff has been hugely successful, with 81 percent of AFT members either vaccinated or with an appointment to get vaccinated. Meanwhile, 85 percent say their schools are back to operating on at least a part-time basis, showing they are doing their part to ensure their kids can return to the classroom safely.
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American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten drew accusations of anti-Semitism after challenging Jewish Americans in a new interview.
The controversy came in response to an interview published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week, in which Weingarten was quoted as describing American Jews as now part of the ownership class in response to a question about Jewish critics of the teachers’ union’s power and influence amid a coronavirus school reopening fight. Jews were immigrants from somewhere else, and they needed the right to have public education, she said. And they needed power to have enough income and wealth for their families that they could put their kids through college and their kids could do better than they have done. Both economic opportunity through the labor movement and an educational opportunity through public education were key for Jews to go from the work