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March 4 March 18, 2013: Pew Global Attitudes Project Poll—Nationwide poll on the gap between the rich and the poor

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Do you think the gap between therich and the poor in the United States has increased, decreased, or stayed thesame in the last five years?

66%                          Increased

5%                             Decreased

25%                          Stayed the same

3%                             Don’t know/Refused

Surveyby Pew Global Attitudes Project. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton SurveyResearch Associates International, March 4 – March 18, 2013 and based on 1,002telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. The interviews included landlineand cell-phone-only respondents. Parallel surveys were conducted in 38 othercountries. [USPSRA.052313G.R022]

Do you think…the gap betweenthe rich and the poor is a very big problem, a moderately big problem, a smallproblem or not a problem at all in our country?

47%                          Very big problem

27%                          Moderately big problem

14%                          Small problem

9%                             Not a problem atall

3%                             Don’t know/Refused

Surveyby Pew Global Attitudes Project. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey ResearchAssociates International, March 4 – March 18, 2013 and based on 1,002 telephoneinterviews. Sample: National adult. The interviews included landline andcell-phone-only respondents. Parallel surveys were conducted in 38 othercountries. [USPSRA.052313G.R022]

Which one of these issues is themost important for the government to address first–rising prices, a lack ofemployment opportunities, the gap between the rich and poor or public debt?

9%                             Rising prices

41%                          Lack of employmentopportunities

17%                          Gap between the richand the poor

28%                          Public debt

3%                             All equallyimportant (Vol.)

1%                             None (Vol.)

1%                             Other (Vol.)

1%                             Don’t know/Refused

Surveyby Pew Global Attitudes Project. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton SurveyResearch Associates International, March 4 – March 18, 2013 and based on 1,002telephone interviews. Sample: National adult. The interviews included landlineand cell-phone-only respondents. Parallel surveys were conducted in 38 othercountries. [USPSRA.052313G.R022]

Formal Citation

PewGlobal Attitudes Project Poll, Mar, 2013. Retrieved May-29-2013 from the iPOLLDatabank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University ofConnecticut. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

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