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Majority of Public Prefers Direct Cash Support In a New COVID-19 Relief Package, National Survey Says

Rutgers scholar Katherine Ognyanova is available to comment on the latest Rutgers-Harvard-Northeastern-Northwestern survey data from The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States.

The researchers polled 20,315 people across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia from Sept. 4-27 about the next COVID-19 relief bill. Respondents were asked if they supported such a bill as well as the types of relief they believed it should include and whether they had received the $300 to $400 supplemental unemployment benefit authorized by President Trump’s executive order of Aug. 5.

To view the full report and findings, click here. Among the findings:

Ognyanova, an assistant professor at Rutgers’ School of Communication and Information, does research in network science, computational social science, social technology, media, civic and political communication.

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