What Is The Purpose Of Our Government?
by Christian Stellakis on Nov 28, 2015 | Views: 129 | Score: 0
| Keeping the country safe from terror | Responding to natural disasters | Ensuring safe food and medicine | Managing the immigration system | Maintaining infrastructure | Protecting the environment | Strengthening the economy | Ensuring access to high quality education | Ensuring basic income for retirees | Setting workplace standards | Ensuring access to healthcare | Helping people get out of poverty | Advancing space exploration | |
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| % of Americans that say the government should play a major role in... | 94 | 88 | 87 | 81 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 70 | 69 | 66 | 61 | 55 | 47 |
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In a nation as large and diverse as the United States, the role of the American government will undoubtedly be critical to the functioning of the nation. Given limited time and resources, however, the question becomes which roles are the most important. According to a recent study by Pew Research, the vast majority of Americans believe that the government should play a major part in maintaining and protecting the nation's integrity. Unfortunately for NASA, though, only 47% of Americans think space exploration should fall to the government.