What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week's Key Polls

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week's Key Polls

For voters, it seems, you can't always get what you want. Only 12% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a federal budget that increases government spending, but that's just what the bipartisan budget deal passed by the House late this week does. It restores billions cut by the sequester on March 30 and puts off potential savings for several years. Read More

Just 31% Work A 40-Hour Week

Nearly-three-out-of-four working Americans now put in a minimum of 40 hours a week on the job, but most still think they have a good work-life balance. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 31% of Employed Americans work 40 hours a week. Forty percent (40%) now work more than 40 hours weekly, including nine percent (9%) who work more than 50 hours a week.  Read More

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll: 47% Approve of Obama's Job Performance

23% Say Their Finances Are Improving

Is Violent Media Part of the Problem? See What America Thinks...

What America Thinks 56% Want Long-Term Budget Deal That Cuts Spending    House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray unveiled a proposed bipartisan budget deal this week that would fund agencies through the fall of 2015. While the proposed deal includes compromises from both sides and has been approved by the House, many conservatives and liberals are voicing opposition. Even before the deal was announced, most voters said they wanted a long-term deal that cuts government spending but don't think they'll get it.

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