Opinion Today
July 22, 2021
What drives Republican and Trump voters' belief in widespread voter fraud?
Kabir Khanna & Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News
Most Americans don't think there was widespread fraud in 2020, but ever since Joe Biden won, most Republicans say there was. This is connected to the push for further voting restrictions in some states, where making voting easier is seen as giving Democrats an advantage.
More than half of Americans couldn’t cover three months of expenses with an emergency fund
Sarah Foster, Bankrate
More than half of Americans (or 51 percent) have less than three months’ worth of expenses covered in an emergency fund, according to Bankrate’s July 2021 Emergency Savings Survey. That total includes 1 in 4 Americans (or 25 percent) who indicate having no emergency fund at all — up from 21 percent in 2020.
Economic Attitudes Improve in Many Nations Even as Pandemic Endures
Shannon Schumacher & J.J. Moncus, Pew Research Center
As the global economy shows signs of rebounding, positive assessments of…
