Questions - Employment - February 25-26, 2011
47% See Increased Government Hiring as Bad for Economy
66% Believe Government Workers Have More Job Security than Private Sector Workers
32% Expect Higher Unemployment a Year From Now, 27% Hold Opposite View
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National Survey of 1,000 Adults
Conducted February 25-26, 2011
By Rasmussen Reports
1* Do you
know anyone who is out of work and looking for a job?
2* Do you
know anyone who, out of frustration with the difficult job market, has given up
looking for a job?
3* Is the job market better than it was a year ago, worse than
it was a year ago or about the same?
4* A year
from today will unemployment be higher than it is today, lower than it is today
or about the same as it is today?
5* People can’t find work after an extended period of
time, should the federal government hire them, pay for their
retraining, extend their unemployment benefits indefinitely or do nothing
at all?
6* If the
federal government hires more people, is that good for the economy, bad for the
economy, or does it have no impact on the economy?
7* Do
government workers have more job security or less job security than workers in
the private sector?
8* Who works harder, government workers or workers in the
private sector?
NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence
