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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

What Drives Anti-Immigrant Views? Bucknell Survey Finds It’s Fear of Violence

Written by Brayden Zimmerman ’20 Bucknell’s most recent survey found that Americans are becoming more pro-immigrant. But there are still large segments of the country who still hold at least…

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Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Bucknell Survey Findings on Public Opinion of Foreign Aid in the Trump Era

Written By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 Public opinion on foreign aid has been widely analyzed over the last two decades. Researchers have found that Americans are becoming less supportive of that…

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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Economic Optimism, Before and After Trump

Over the past year and a half, we have analyzed many different issues using data from two nationally representative surveys that were conducted in 2016 and 2017 (see details on…

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Wednesday, October 18th, 2017

Should Student Athletes Be Paid or Given the Right to Unionize?

By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 and Will Bordash ’18 Should student athletes be allowed to unionize or receive a salary? This is a question that is debated every year, but has…

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Tuesday, September 26th, 2017

The Politics Behind Views of Colin Kaepernick

By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 and Will Bordash ’18 Over the past few days, our country has gone through another episode of questioning our politics, our politicians, and our ideals after…

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Friday, April 7th, 2017

Perceptions of Economic Fairness

By Will Bordash ’18 and Brayden Zimmerman ’20 Over the past two months we have analyzed economic optimism from many perspectives, including race, gender, education, age, locality, party identification, ideology, …

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Thursday, February 16th, 2017

Economic Optimism: Does Age or Locality Have an Influence?

By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 & Will Bordash ’18 In the previous report, we looked to see if there was a connection between economic optimism and gender, race, or education. Here,…

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Friday, February 3rd, 2017

Economic Optimism: Who has it and why does it matter

By Brayden Zimmerman ’20 & Will Bordash ’18 Even roughly three months after the last Presidential Election, it’s hard to make sense of what happened. Why was there such a…

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