Question 1.
As children in your community head back to school what are you MOST concerned about?
| Violence / Crime | 37% |
| Inadequate Education | 17% |
| The Cost of Education | 2% |
| Any other Concerns | 30% |
| No Concern / No Answer | 14% |
Question 2.
Which of the following priorities, if any, are more important than cutting taxes?
| Providing access to after-school
programs and early childhood development programs like Head Start |
68% |
| Shoring up Social Security and Medicare | 68% |
| Paying off the national debt | 44% |
| Building new highways | 29% |
| Building more advanced military weapons and spending more on military pay | 26% |
| Don't know / No answer / None of these | 6% |
Question 3.
Please indicate the level of your agreement or disagreement with the following statement: America could greatly reduce violent crime by expanding preventive efforts like after-school programs for school-age children and teens, Head Start and other early childhood development programs, and interventions for troubled kids.
| Strongly Agree | Agree but not Strongly | Total who Agree or Strongly Agree | Disagree but not Strongly | Strongly Disagree | Total who Disagree or Strongly Disagree | Don't know / No answer |
| 56% | 30% | 86% | 8% | 4% | 12% | 2% |
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