July 7-14, 2008: CBS News/New York Times Poll—Nationwide poll on programs that make special efforts to help people from low-income backgrounds.
“Do you favor or oppose programs that make special efforts to help people get ahead who come from low-income backgrounds, regardless of their gender or ethnicity?”
83% Favor
13% Oppose
4% Don۪t know/No answer
Subpopulation/Note: Registered voters.
Methodology: Conducted by CBS News/New York Times, July 7 – July 14, 2008 and based on 1,796 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult including oversamples of blacks and hispanics. There were totals of 297 blacks and 246 Hispanics interviewed. Results were weighted to be representative of a national adult population. [USCBSNYT.071508.R56]
Formal Citation
CBS News/New York Times Poll, Jul, 2008. Retrieved Sep-9-2010 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html