September 9-12, 2010: Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll---Nationwide poll includes questions on a proposal that would allow younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in retirement accounts.

"As you may know, there is a current proposal that would allow younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in retirement accounts of their choice, which might include stocks, bonds or mutual funds and provide either a lower or higher benefit than Social Security does now. Generally, do you favor or oppose this proposal?"

58% Favor

28% Oppose

15% Don't know/Refused

Subpopulation/Note: .

Survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, National Journal, Society for Human Resource Management. Methodology: Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, September 9 - September 12, 2010 and based on 1,001 telephone interviews. Sample: national adult. 671 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 330 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 130 who had no landline telephone. [USPSRA.091310C.R08]

Formal Citation

Pew Research Center/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, Sep, 2010. Retrieved Nov-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