Questions - Poverty - March 25-26, 2013

National Survey of 1,000 Adults

Conducted March 25-26, 2013

By Rasmussen Reports

1* How severe is poverty in the United States today?

2* Are you currently living in poverty?

3* Are you personally dependent upon government financial aid?

4* Looking ahead… a year from now, will you still be dependent upon government financial aid?

5* Do current government programs increase the level of poverty in America or decrease the level of poverty in America? Or do they have no impact on the level of poverty?

6* Are there too many Americans dependent on the government for financial aid or not enough? Or is the level of dependency about right?

7* Do you agree or disagree with the following statement – “Work is the best solution for poverty.”

8* A proposal has been made to end all welfare and poverty programs and use some of the money saved to create jobs for the poor. If a person could not find a job and wanted to work, he or she would be guaranteed a minimum wage government job doing projects to improve local communities. Do you favor or oppose this proposal?

9* Another proposal would be to use some of the savings from eliminating welfare programs to subsidize private sector jobs for the unemployed. If a company hired and trained a long-term unemployed worker, the government would cover a portion of the person’s minimum wage hourly pay. Do you favor or oppose this proposal?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence