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Aside from spurts of patriotic shopping, many Americans were holding onto their wallets. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 56% of the 1,000 adults in the survey said they believe the war against Iraq will hurt the U.S. economy. Asked whether the recession has influenced their spending habits, 34% said they were spending less, while 64% professed no change...
...fueled uneasiness among those blacks who feel that their friends and loved ones are being asked to do more than their fair share of dying for a nation that gives them less than their share of economic and social opportunities. According to last week's TIME/CNN poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 49% of all blacks supported involvement in the war, compared with 77% of whites...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Jan. 24 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
Unlike their leaders, many Americans seem to consider a tax increase for the war to be inevitable. In a TIME/CNN poll taken last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 54% of the 1,000 adults surveyed said they thought it would be necessary to raise taxes to pay for the fighting. But few of the options were attractive. Only 27% favored raising income taxes, while just 35% supported an increase in gasoline taxes, and 38% approved of a one-time income tax surcharge. The preferred choice: a tax on imported oil, which 54% favored...
...American savers, already reeling from the savings and loan debacle, the banking crisis has inspired rising anxiety about the safety of their money. In a TIME/CNN poll of 1,000 adults surveyed last week by the firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, just 7% said they felt very confident about the soundness of U.S. banks, while 59% said they were only somewhat confident or not confident at all. Bigness is not necessarily reassuring: 52% said they had more faith in local banks than in larger ones, while 36% felt safer with their money in major institutions...