August 3 – 5, 2013: Fox News PollNationwide poll on food stamps and welfare
“Iam going to read you some descriptions of hypothetical situations. For each one,please tell me whether you are okay with the person receiving food stamps or ifyou have a problem with them receiving food stamps….A laid-off worker whowants a job and doesn’t have the money to feed his family.”
94% Okay
4% Have a problem
2% Don۪t know
Surveyby Fox News. Methodology: Conducted by Anderson Robbins Research/Shaw & Co.Research, August 3 – August 5, 2013 and based on 1,007 telephone interviews.Sample: National registered voters. 672 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 335 were interviewed on a cell phone.[USASFOX.080713.R28]
“Whichof the following do you think is the better way to get families who fall onhard times back on their feet again?…For them to rely on friends, family,their church or other charitable organization, for them to rely on governmentprograms such as food stamps and welfare”
50% For them to rely on friends, family, their church or other charitableorganization
35% For them to rely on government programs such as food stamps and welfare
16% Don۪t know
Surveyby Fox News. Methodology: Conducted by Anderson Robbins Research/Shaw & Co.Research, August 3 – August 5, 2013 and based on 1,007 telephone interviews.Sample: National registered voters. 672 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 335 were interviewed on a cell phone.[USASFOX.080713.R24]
“Whichof the following comes closer to your view about the record number of peoplereceiving food stamps? Is it because the recession has been so severe that manypeople who never took government assistance before qualify for it now, or thegovernment has made it too easy to get assistance and many people just takeadvantage of the system?”
40% Severity of the recession means more qualify for assistance
53% Government has made it too easy to get assistance and manypeople take advantage
7% Don۪t know
Surveyby Fox News. Methodology: Conducted by Anderson Robbins Research/Shaw & Co.Research, August 3 – August 5, 2013 and based on 1,007 telephone interviews.Sample: National registered voters. 672 respondents were interviewed on alandline telephone, and 335 were interviewed on a cell phone.[USASFOX.080713.R27]
FormalCitation
FoxNews Poll, Aug, 2013. Retrieved Aug-15-2013 from the iPOLL Databank, The RoperCenter for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html