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How Should We Rebuild Our Economy?

NOW THAT YOU’VE HAD a chance to participate in a forum on this issue, we’d like to know what you’re thinking. Anonymous responses will be included in summary reports on the forums and in research to help us better understand how people are thinking about current issues.
1.Here are some priorities for rebuilding our economy.
One of my top three priorities
Helpful but not a top priority
Not a priority at all
I oppose this
I am unsure about this
Encourage employers to reorganize job requirements so more people can work from home.
Make sure all families, regardless of income, have access to good childcare facilities so parents can get back to work.
Increase tariffs on foreign imports to spur the sale of American-made products.
Expand high-speed internet service, which would enable more people to work from home.
Increase local and state funding for small businesses, with particular attention to minority businesses.
Provide tax breaks for companies to bring their factories back to the United States, which will provide more jobs for US workers.
Ensure that unemployment insurance covers workers for enough time to find new jobs.
Place more emphasis on science and technology in the nation’s schools to better prepare students for the jobs of the future.
Reduce immigration to make more jobs available to US-born wor
Provide funds for a major rebuilding program that would put people to work repairing roads, bridges, and other parts of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Increase neighborhood density to enable more people to walk or ride bikes to work.
Encourage cities and towns to buy and hire locally.
2.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
3.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
4.Which is more important to you? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
5.Which statement comes closer to your view? If you’re not sure, please let us know.
6.Thinking about your forum overall, how much disagreement was there among the group?
7.Did you talk about aspects of the issue you hadn’t considered before?
8.Were there ideas or proposals that you tended to favor coming into the forum that you now have second thoughts about?
9.What could citizens, working together, do in their own communities to address this problem?
10.Not including this forum, how many National Issues Forums have you attended?
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14.In what type of community do you live?
15.What is your zip code?
16.What state do you live in?
17.Did you attend this forum in person or online?
18.What issue would you like to see covered in a future forum?