Middle Class Americans Not Yet Feeling Their Bailout
by Peter Graham on Mar 7, 2015 | Views: 124 | Score: 0
How much have government policies helped the following since the recession? ...A great deal/Fair amount | Not too much/Not at all | |
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Large banks | 71 | 23 |
Large corporations | 67 | 28 |
Wealthy people | 66 | 29 |
Poor people | 32 | 65 |
Small business | 28 | 68 |
Middle class | 26 | 72 |
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Sources:
people-press.org
Americans maintain the perception that the middle class, small business and the poor have not benefited from government policies enacted since the bailout as much as have large financial institutions and businesses. How might Congress and the White House better address these feelings of marginalization?