• Press Release

New Polling Data Shows Huge Support for PRAs

  • By: FW Staff
  • 02/03/2004

New polls from Fox News and CNN show strong, widespread support for Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs) that workers can own and control. PRAs are a bipartisan solution to the looming Social Security crisis– the program will run into the red in 2018 if Congress doesn’t act now.

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FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Jan. 21-22, 2004. N=900
registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.

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"Do you think people should have the choice to invest
privately up to five percent of their Social Security contributions, or not?" Should
Have
Choice Should
Not Not
Sure   % % % 1/21-22/04 67 24 9 12/3-4/03 67 23 10

 

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CNN/USA
Today/Gallup Poll. Oct. 24-26,
2003. N=1,006 adults
nationwide. MoE ± 3.

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"A proposal has been made that would allow people to put
a portion of their Social Security payroll taxes into personal retirement
accounts that would be invested in private stocks and bonds. Do you favor
or oppose this proposal?"

Favor Oppose No
Opinion % % % 10/03 62 34 4 11/02 57 40 3 9/02 52 43 5 6/02 57 39 4 4/02 63 33 4 1/02 63 33 4 11/01 64 31 5 8/01 62 34 4 3/01 63 30 7 6/00 65 30 5