11-01-2005, 01:12 PM
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Born Against
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Here's one poll of many; there are several more recent with basically the same numbers but this is the most recent one I can find with a demographic breakdown.
Overwhelming majorities of people in the U.S. favor increasing the minimum wage. In fact, a majority of republicans or conservatives favor increasing it.
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QUESTION NUMBER: 030
QUESTION:
(How important do you think each of the following goals is for the federal government to work on this year--is it vital, extremely important, quite important, not that important, or not important at all?)...Raise the minimum wage to six dollars and fifteen cents by the year 2000.
RESULTS:
Vital - 30%
Extremely important - 21
Quite important - 21
Not that important - 16
Not important at all - 9
Not sure - 3
DEMOGRAPHICS: V EI QI NTI NI NS
477 Male 29 15 20 18 15 3
527 Female 31 28 23 14 3 2
772 White 26 19 24 18 11 3
105 Black 50 33 8 6 1 2
64 Hispanic 37 40 3 11 6 3
10 Asian 32 0 35 18 16 0
76 < HS grad 35 39 12 11 0 3
306 HS graduate 38 24 19 13 5 1
306 Some college 28 22 21 15 12 2
162 College grad 17 14 29 22 14 4
143 Post grad 28 13 23 19 11 5
194 East 24 24 26 12 8 7
239 Midwest 29 17 28 20 4 2
368 South 34 21 18 13 12 1
203 West 29 25 16 17 10 3
200 Republican 21 17 18 25 17 2
297 Democrat 44 24 18 7 2 4
444 Independent 25 21 25 17 9 2
47 < $ 10,000 45 19 13 16 3 3
99 $ 10,000-19,999 39 27 13 9 9 2
127 $ 20,000-29,999 33 22 32 10 2 2
248 $ 30,000-49,999 32 20 27 11 8 2
173 $ 50,000-74,999 25 19 14 28 12 2
168 $ 75,000 & over 17 20 25 17 14 6
252 Liberal 42 23 22 8 4 1
292 Moderate 29 22 26 16 5 3
309 Conservative 22 20 15 23 16 4
211 18-29 years old 32 23 19 15 7 3
233 30-39 26 19 29 17 8 1
191 40-49 22 24 22 15 11 6
155 50-59 33 20 21 15 9 1
214 60 and over 36 21 15 16 11 2
163 Union household 24 21 35 15 5 0
827 Non-union hh 31 21 19 16 10 3
ORGANIZATION CONDUCTING SURVEY: HART AND TEETER RESEARCH COMPANIES
POPULATION: National adult
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 1,004
INTERVIEW METHOD: Telephone
SURVEY SPONSOR: NBC News, Wall Street Journal
BEGINNING DATE: April 18, 1998
ENDING DATE: April 20, 1998
SOURCE DOCUMENT: NBC NEWS, WALL STREET JOURNAL POLL
DATE OF RELEASE OF SOURCE DOCUMENT: April 1998
QUESTION ID: USNBCWSJ.98AP18, R06E
LOAD-DATE: December 11, 1998
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