February 2-7, 2011: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Political Survey—Nationwide poll solicits the public۪s views on spending for economic assistance to the needy.
“If you were making up the budget for the federal government this year (2011), would you increase spending, decrease spending or keep spending the same for…economic assistance to needy people in the US (United States)?”
42% Increase spending 
20% Decrease spending
34% Keep spending the same
3% Don’t know/Refused
Subpopulation/Note: Asked of Form 1 half sample.
Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, February 2 – February 7, 2011 and based on 1,385 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 952 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 433 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 197 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.021011.R17IF1]
Formal Citation
Pew Research Center for the People , Feb, 2011. Retrieved Feb-28-2011 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html