has enjoyed our association with gallup. i wish i could say what brandon said, that i was not alive at that time. [laughter] poll workingd the in close association with p.d. k. then he turned it over to his son and his son directed the poll for 25 years. into its poll recognition that we see today. these are two great icons in public opinion polling and it has created a great opportunity to investigate and understand what americans believe about their public schools. because the poll is conducted annually for 46 years and there are very few poles that can say many of the revisit questions year after year and that allows us to be in a unique position to provide trend data, looking to see how americans' opinions change over time. we are dedicated to transparency. we list every question that we asked verbatim in the poll. we invite readers and others to take a look at the questions. we make interpretations and invite others to make interpretations based on the way the question was asked. we were guided in the development of the

at gallup university. the executive director at gallup education, and codirector of the -- pdk-gallup poll. we have several staff that are involved. joan richardson, and ashley kincaid, the executive director of our collegiate honor society. we have other staff that are not here that were instrumental in this. greg patterson, managing editor of content. managing editor for design. and also, our graphic designer who helped us put together several slides. finally, i would be remiss if i not affectnk -- did , irene, who is in the audience. a lifelong educator. she is been supportive in helping us. and our daughter jennifer who works in research, involved in policy. three final announcements. there is a lot more information at the pdkpoll.org website. something brand-new this year, we actually held back half of the results for a second report that we will be sharing with everyone on september 16. results we have in the second report are going to highlight findings about teacher evaluations and preparation. sup

gallup poll. in 1969, many years before i was born.ou have a deeper appreciation for how many years we have been looking at public perceptions of schools. obviously, a special opportunity every year. it is interesting. in addition to this special half century of research we have done in collaboration ., arguably, in the last year, has conducted more orource -- more research education than any organization we can't think of. if i were to summarize some of the most important things we learned last year, which i will do in a few short minutes, it is safe to say that what we are seeing is that something is very wrong. but we have to be careful about what we mean when we say something is very wrong. because there is a lot of stuff that is still going pretty darn well. i wonder if we have not, as a country, started to become incredibly negative about school, teachers, education. this is not just an american phenomenon.

>> the gallup research is in five areas so far.areer wellbeing, physical wellbeing, community wellbeing, and financial wellbeing. it seems they are all related. so, if you are happy in your career, of course, you will be successful. right? most people aren't. only 20% of people are happy in their careers. more people on monday morning die. social wellbeing means your net work of family and friends. physicalwl wellbeing. do you sleep well? are you rested? do you have stress or not? do you eat properly? ets. and then community wellbeing is your community safe? are you able to walk at night without anxiety? and many other things. and then financial wellbeing means that you have no anxiety about money. these things can be quantified. so, if you score, say, 7 or more out of 10 when we quantify it, then you are thriving. if you score between 4 and 7, you are struggling. and if you score less than 4, then you are suffering. the gallup data was so interesting that we could actually predict with the data we had, we could predict what was go

the executive director at gallup education, and codirector of the tdk yellow pole -- gallup poll. we have several staff that are involved. joan richardson, and ashley kincaid, the executive director of our collegiate honor society. we have other staff that are not here that were instrumental in this. greg patterson, managing editor to her -- editor of content. and also, our graphic designer who helped us put together several slides. finally, i would be remiss if i didn't think my wife, irene, who is in the audience. a lifelong educator. she is been supportive in helping us. and our daughter jennifer who works in research, involved in policy. three final announcements. there is a lot more information at the pdk poll. something brand-new this year, we actually held back half of the results for a second report that will be sharing with everyone on september 16. results we have in the second report are going to highlight findings about teacher evaluations and preparation. support for children, undocumented immigrants, college affordability, and the importance of college and americans

i began by asking him how gallup defined well-being. >> gallup came up with this well-being index 30 years ago and they have a series of questions that looks like, sets a purpose, sense of purpose in life, if you connected to your job, how well you feel physically if you have a lot of energy, if you are connected to your community if you are connected, if you have good social relationships, sort of a lot of softball questions like that and asked them and they correlate it with how much debt you have, and they did this for the 30,000 college graduates, these questions in march and it turns out that even 25 years after you have graduated the more debt you carried when you graduated, the more poorly you scored on those questions later on. >> so they said they felt less physically fit, less connected to their job, their family? how is that? >> it is worse than you think. the interesting part about this, to me, was that it carries on so much longer. the real question is why, i think, but you are talking about difference of 15 points in terms of the number of people, the percentage of peop

it is the foundation that funds the pdk-gallup poll every year.so as brandon mentioned, for 46 consecutive years pdk has enjoyed our partnership with gallup. george gallup senior started the poll in 1969. i wish i could say what brandon said. i was alive at that time. dr. gallup led the poll for 15 years working in close association with pdk. then he turned it over to his son alec. alec directed the poll for 25 years. itst the poll into recognition we see today. these are two great icons in polling. and it's created a great opportunity to investigate and understand what americans believe about the public schools. conductede poll is annually for 46 years, and there are very few polls that can say that, we can revisit many of the questions year after year and that allows us to be in a unique position to provide trend data, looking to see how americans' opinions change over time. the other thing i want to mention is we are dedicated to transparency. we list every question we ask verbatim in the poll. to take ate readers look of the questions. we make

the second quarter of two thousand and fourteen the lowest quarterly rate in more than six years gallup health ways well-being index trending all americans in democratically controlled states now have unprecedented access to lifesaving affordable health care nearly six million working americans in republican controlled states still don't have access to the health care they need and deserve because republicans refused to accept federal money to expand medicaid in their states so despite all of the evidence showing just how effective obamacare has been republicans across the country are continuing to put politics ahead of people's lives isn't time for this madness to stop let's rumble. joining. resides on mobile are chris allman conservative commentator and activist and horace cooper conservative commentator and senior fellow of the national center for public policy research you're served by intro obamacare is working in the states that a lot of work and it's not working in the states that don't let it work this is like deja vu all over again with iraq accommodates medicaid expansion yes

obamacare is working really really well except in states controlled by republicans new data from gallup shows the states that are controlled by democrats that have fully implemented obamacare by both expanding medicaid and setting up state run insurance insurance exchanges have seen the biggest drops in insurance rates over the past six months to be uninsured as the new gallup data points out. arkan saw in kentucky two traditionally red states are leading the way in slashing uninsured rates the more than the number of people who are uninsured and say it is plain english or arkansas arkansas was uninsured rate number of people uninsured in arkansas has dropped just over ten percent since the beginning of two thousand and fourteen while the number of people in kentucky without insurance has fallen by eight point five percent while democratic led states are seeing their uninsured rates tumble the number of people uninsured republican controlled states that haven't seen it haven't seen that much of a change in fact the ten states that currently have the highest rate of uninsured people are

of all, on behalf of gallup, welcome, and welcome to our hall. i am the executive director of education, and i am delighted here to kick off the results from the 46th annual pdk gallup poll. it is hard to believe that this started years before i was born, so we have a deep appreciation for how many years we have been looking at public perceptions of schools, and obviously, a special opportunity every year to share it with you. addition to this special half century of research we have done dk, welaboration with p have conducted more research than pretty much any other organization we can think of, and if i were to summarize some of the most important things we have learned in the last year, which i am going to do in just a few short minutes, it is safe to say that what we are seeing is that something is very wrong. about have to be careful what we mean when we say something is very wrong, because there is a lot of stuff that is still going pretty darn well. just notder if we have got negative. and by the way, it is not just us. about are worrying

it's on track to be the lowest sentiment since gallup began asking the question since 1992.hat's your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> all right. i'm joined by news day columnist, ellis henniquin. let's talk about what's happened in the last 12 hours. in ferguson, missouri, what's going to happen in the coming days. one of the things that we're watching is president obama, he's asking again for eric holder to go to ferguson and bring along two missouri senators, one democrat, one republican. this really striking a chord for this president. >> well, it's a start. you've got to understand how low they began out there. clearly there's great need to have some kind of federal confidence on the ground there. i think the president pushed that forward yesterday. there's still some distance to go. >> there's a lot of people looking for confidence, looking for structure, looking for answers. one individual who has certainly taken up that mantle many would say on both sides of this. >> i know who you're going to say. >> captain ron johnson. >> right. >> he was out there just two

. >> welcome to the, welcome to the gallup organization. i'm going to emcee you through this, and and we've got a couple of people who are going to speak, and then i'm going to introduce our new best-selling author. his book is number one on amazon's movers and shakers list today. and i know you're not following it very closely in the world -- it's 30 something in the world, so congratulations on all that. [applause] we have a really important american here today, and for those of you that know gallup, our biggest business sector around the world is actually banking. so we have a lot of sectors. we work for all kinds of option option -- of organizations, be but our biggest sector is banking. banking's been a very good supporter of the operation. i think most of you know that john has built an organization called operation hope and john, i would say as a board member, that our best friends are banks at operation hope. the banks have an organization here in up to that's a real powerhouse called the financial services round table, and its ceo

we referenced those gallup numbers and people show are not feeling good about economy.aybe it shows uptick in people's confidence. here is the bottom line, everyone understands this is not the sort of roaring recovery that we need. there are statistic tweeted by 53, not some conservative outfit earlier today that i thought was so telling. this is 50th, out of 51 months in a row where more unemployed workers stopped looking for work than found jobs. that i think is the most telling stat out of the jumble of numbers we see on big jobs day which i know gets you super excited. >> businesses throughout the recession and coming out recession during this recovery have learned to work with less people. okay? so they're not even hiring in tax environment, health care law. it is still prohibiting a lot of businesses from wanting to hire. >> those are all disincentives. that is how it operating in the job market. it is killers. only record highs middle class americans have been seeing these days, gas, energy and food costs. so many americans are living paycheck to paycheck. nobody

and in my opinion i would not have written this book without him when i became to gallup he opened myd said no like head back up what i knew was right to change pro-life. we have a 100 your commitment with gallup for every kid for every public school in america for three. say thank-you to jim. [applause] "how the poor can save capitalism" we already are. we already are. 70 percent of this economy give or take to pay rent and mortgages in and utility bills, water, and a cup of coffee, gas from the gas station, the micro transactions, that is what drives the economy but we don't get any credit. 70% of americans are living paycheck to paycheck. it is a fascinating number but so give me some examples. do you know, the plans were a toy for the rich when they came out bullet and automobiles. they were a toy for the rich will get this alphonse you remember the big breaks the 10-pound phone? on your shoulder? i can translate some of this you were ballin or you were rollin it cost $3,000 no africa will become the first wireless economy they will jump right over landline phone people have multi

a new gallup poll says half of americans employed full time work an average of 47 hours per week.a full workday longer than the standard 40 hours. the survey found that salaried workers tend to work longer hours than those who are hourly and others have more than one job. that's all for me here in washington. "america's news headquarters" rolls on. kelly write, heather childress are standing by in new york. take care. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kelly wright. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters. >>" i'm heather childers. syrian rebels attacking u.n. peacekeepers in the golan heights. >> russia facing more sanctions as european union leaders huddle in the next steps in the growing crisis. >>> joan rivers remains in serious condition at a new york city hospital. we'll have the very latest.

the gallup data was so interesting that we could predict with the data we had we could predict what was going to happen in libya, in egypt, in tunisia before it happened. >> explain that. >> well, the majority of the people who are in the suffering stage, and people start to suffer, then revolutions happen, social unrests happen, traffic accidents increase and violence happens. i teach a class on this, and one of my students in the class was qaddafi's son. >> wow. >> basically they wanted to quote/unquote rebrand libya into a country that paid attention to well-being because they were aware of this data. >> was it one of the sons, by the way who is on trial? >> he died three weeks after he left my class. it was very sad because you could see there was this absolute huge anxiety that some disaster was going to occur. >> libya is just one of many places in the midst of crisis right now. >> yes. >> talk about how you view the world at this point. is it at a tenuous time. >> if you have 50% of the world living on less than $2 a day, that's a catastrophe, we have that right now. >> you think

and yet we have a gallop poll out in the last week combined with -- gallup poll out, and asked americanss what they thought the stock market did last year in 2013. i don't know if most people are aware, one out of three americans told the survey stocks were either flat or down last year. only 7% of people accurately said the s&p was up 30%. show me the mania? when you talk about a bubble, it's not just about valuation. it's also about behavior. quite frankly, the behavior that would say this is a mania, it's just not apparent in these numbers. >> people answering their phone to gallup polls, i'm not surprised. >> do you answer the phone thor that? >> no, no. >> leave that there. >>> a live picture from martha's vineyard. president obama is expected to make a statement within the next 15 minutes or so, and when he does step to that lectern there in edgerton, massachusetts, we will certainly take thru live to hear from president obama. >>> coming up meantime, crude prices dropping despite geopolitical tension. how should you trade that. >>> plus, the number two golfer in the world is getti

the gallup poll is down to 41%. i mentioned the nbc news. the journal poll is down to 40. he has lost the middle. not just on the issues, but on their confidence in him personally. there only issue is to try to get the base so whipped up that hopefully they can stand a loss. we will see if it works. you never know. >> you mention january next year. will you be talking about republican control? >> i am not a crystal ball. i think the incumbent democrat their onlyere -- chance is to make this about personalities. it is on the issues. politically speaking. in the end, we will see if they are successful in doing that. if this election is felt on a whether or not they have obamacare votes, whether they are not allowing one on keystone pipeline. you have the spectacle. i'm not been able to get a vote on something that is very important. it is kind of embarrassing. if it is on the issues, they are gone. >> how do you explain some of the polling, the troubles with the affordable care act. what we know historically what happens, considering all that, there are very strong head wind

enthusiastic about their work. >> gallup estimates that actively disengaged employees cost u.s.iness up to $550 billion a year in lost productivity. >> the most important way to have people engaged in their jobs is to make sure that you have done a good job of hiring people in the first place. >> robert pass 7 calls himself cwo, chief wagon officer. as in radio flyer wagons. you might have had one. more than 100 million have been sold since passe in. 's italian immigrant grandfather started the business in chicago nearly 97 years ago. >> everyone asks why is it called radio flyer and my grandfather just thought the two words were really cool and future risk so he put them on the wagon and had nothing to do g with the product. >> radio flyer is number 13 on fortune's list of best small companies to work for .. >> everything seems to either have a wagon or is red. >> we love wagons and we love red. >> you see toys everywhere and signs that the company's 64 employees called flyers have a good time. >> spike it. perfect. >> but the point of the fun and games is to make sure nothing

go to gallup, if you will.d a very interesting survey two years ago among american religious communities. they asked every religious community in the united states, including atheist groups, ten simple questions about the use of violence. in all ten questions, muslims were by far the religious community that was least accepting of violence in the name of religion. in fact, by sometimes 20-30 points over christians and jews. in fact, the only community whose tolerance for -- or lack of tolerance for violence came close to muslims were atheists, as a matter of fact. this notion that i hear all the time, why aren't muslims condemning violence, is absurd. in fact, as i say, it's not a question. you are not asking me a question, shirley. you are just similarly regurgitating something that you have been told over and over and over to again. something that can be proven wrong with almost no effort on your part. at all. so instead of asking me that question, ask the question of yourself and find the answer. >> host: fr

new gallup poll shows despite improving job numbers, americans are more unhappy about the economy than they have been in seven months, there are number of reasons for the trend. most people are still earning less than what they were earning before the recession struck in 2007. they have part-time johns when they want to work full-time. employers are also taking time to fill positions, and over a third of americans owe more on their homes than they're worth. ukee, erika. >> wendy, thanks so much. appreciate t coming up after a short break. traffic and weather together, we do it on the >>> just past 4:53. good morning, bob. >>> live look at the ben franklin bridge, coming into philadelphia. no problems or delays at all. they got one lane open, though, headed into new jersey, all part of the overnight construction there, the schuylkill expressway, good morning, to south philly, right near passyunk avenue. this is the 26th street tunnel. and they're packing stuff up here out along passyunk there, so we should be good to go this morning. no problems at all coming in from the suburbs in king

their time working these crazy hours and the hours required to survive are getting crazier a new gallup poll finds that economically stressed americans are working an average of forty seven hours per week with a growing number clocking sixty or more and increasing lack of security or stability in the us workforce has even been acknowledged by america's leader but average wages have barely budged inequality has deepened upward mobility has stalled the cold hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery too many americans are working more than ever just to get by let alone to get ahead and too many still aren't working at all but many critics say the government is to blame for leaving the american dream in tatters it's because the the we live in a what is not a free market economy we live in a fascist economy we live in a corporate state where you have huge government huge corporations connected to the government big banks especially but the cream of the crop they're living the dream according to reports corporate profits are at their highest level in at least eighty five years however e

today the gallup poll does the presidential poll every presidents' day they ask americans to the favorite president was really ronald reagan has one of more than any otheother president president sy started doing it. it beats lincoln and washington and fdr, all of them. there was a poll in 2005 by tie-in and aol that asked americans who is the greatest american of all time not the greatest presidents of all time but who is the greatest american of all time. 2.4 million responded. very popular. one more. 2013, february after barack obama second inaugural that should be at the height of the popularity either way obama got re- elected with less electoral college votes and less popular votes. first and only president that has happened with. he got reelected with 49 states and obama had 26 states. the poll done in february of 2013 asked right after the second inaugural if the presidential election was held between ronald reagan and barack obama who would you vote for and he won by 58%. that's higher than the percentage against carter. and ronald reagan also won in that survey among the voters

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according to gallup, fewer americans identify themselves as middle-class now than ever before.e-class in 2008. from the senses department, more than a third receiving some welfare of some kind. july personal income growth. the numbers came in this morning at about four hours ago. here is what mary kissel with the wall street editorial board said about our economy last hour. >> food prices are rising. healthcare costs are rising. we are getting taxed to death. none of this gross. stuart: president obama did trumpet what he called the economic recovery yesterday. we will talk to someone from last owned smithkline about their new trials. we will also talk with the executive that is trying to teach young people how to change a tire. next, the television that will help you cut the cord from cable. ♪ [ bell rings ] hi michael! looking good! trying to keep up with you! i told my producer karen that i take metamucil because it helps me feel fuller between meals. it's just one small change that can help lead to good things. now she's breaking up with the vending machine. nope. i call th

>> there is because david coleman as widely regarded as the architect, now an annual poll by gallup findsost americans oppose common core, a set of federal teaching standards touted by the obama administration supported by the american federation of teachers union, 44 states and the district of colombia participate in the common core initiative. >> thanks. >> a high-speed police chase forcing them to get out. knocking over tables and chairs pinning one person against the walls and a for people the hospital. police say the driver was wanted for domestic assault. the best to those four in the hospital. a quick recovery. >> calm is finally taking hold, last night it was calm in ferguson, missouri. >> no smoke, no teargas and no mace. and again tonight police fired not a single bullet. >> so have we turned a corner? >> rubber duck is building a new nest. we will tell you where when we share that in a moment. >> today is throwback thursday, hawaii became the 50th state in the union. before that the cluster of pacific islands with a u.s. territory with pearl harbor, hawaiians accepted state wou

>> yes, at the high level. >> earlier this week, the gallup poll released their latest numbers. are you familiar with that survey? >> yes, i am, congressman. >> the similarly the urban institute and commonwealth fund conducted surveys. can you discuss that also? >> i'm familiar with those too, yes. >> okay. would you agree that the findings of both gallup and new england journal of medicine are consistent with the millions of americans sign up for health care? >> they're consistent, very encouraging. >> okay. the only thing keeping millions more americans from signing up for the coverage is the repeals of a republican governor and state legislatures to expand medicaid. if they did, another 5 million americans would be eligible for insurance. mr. chairman, i think the affordable care act coming out of the chute, it was a problem. it has been fixed and hopefully we'll see in the renewals it happened. but it is working. a lot of us had tough times october to mid-november who supported it. mr. slavitt, what is cms doing to address the execution or the technology lessons learned from