This poll was conducted in August by Opinion Research Corporation International for Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. The following tables, approved by ORC, summarize the results of the poll.
Question 1.
To provide kids in your community with access to good after-school programs and early childhood development programs like Head Start, would you be willing to:
| Pay more taxes? | 50% |
| Those who were unwilling to pay more taxes, but who were willing to pass up a tax cut: | 24% |
| Total percent of those willing to pay more taxes, pass up a tax cut, or both: | 74% |
Question 2.
Which of these priorities are more important than cutting taxes?
| Shoring up Social Security and Medicare. | 67% |
| Providing access to after-school
programs and early childhood development programs like Head Start. |
66% |
| Paying off the national debt. | 48% |
| Building new highways. | 32% |
| Building more advanced military weapons
and spending more on military pay. |
27% |
| Don't know / None of these | 5% |
Question 3.
As children in your community head back to school what are you most concerned about?
[Those polled volunteered their own answers.]
| Violence / Crime | 47% |
| Inadequate Education | 18% |
| The Cost of Education | 2% |
| Any other Concerns | 21% |
| No Concern / No Answer | 11% |
This CARAVAN survey was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation International for Fight Crime: Invest in Kids. 1016 adults, 18 years of age and over, were surveyed during the period of August 12-15, 1999. The margin of error is plus or minus 3% at the 95% confidence level.