Memo: A Clean Jumpstart to Rebuild America’s Economy Public Opinion Polling and Analysis

Executive Summary

  • Voters support a host of proposals that could constitute a green stimulus package, and all fourteen proposals we tested enjoyed considerable margins of support. 

  • The most popular proposal we tested was directing federal aid to small, independent, and family farms rather than to agribusiness. Voters supported this policy by a margin of 66 percentage points. 

  • Support for a green stimulus is also bipartisan. For example, Republicans support the creation of a Climate Conservation Corps by a margin of 34 points. 

In blog posts published last month, Mark Paul, a senior fellow at Data for Progress, and Julian Brave NoiseCat, our vice president of policy and strategy, advanced the idea of a “green stimulus.” The idea would simultaneously tackle the twin crises of the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. 

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