Support for continuing increased unemployment benefits due to the COVID-19 pandemic is split on partisan lines, according to an August 2020 survey. With the additional payments having expired on July 31, 2020, 52 percent of respondents who identified as Democrats believed Congress should renew the payments at the full amount of 600 U.S. dollars per week. Conversely, 33 percent of Republican respondents believed the payments should be ceased altogether.
Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party
Characteristic
Congress should renew the law and continue providing an extra $600 per week
Congress should renew the law and continue providing an extra amount less than $600 per week
Congress should let the law expire and end increased unemployment payments
Survey method not disclosed by the source.
Original question: "This spring, the U.S. Congress passed a law to provide stimulus spending to combat the economic effects of COVID-19. In the law, the federal government provided additional money, up to $600 per week, to temporarily increase unemployment payments. The provision for increased unemployment payments
expires at the end of the month. What do you think the Congress should do?"
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YouGov. (August 5, 2020). Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 31, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/
YouGov. "Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party." Chart. August 5, 2020. Statista. Accessed December 31, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/
YouGov. (2020). Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 31, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/
YouGov. "Support among U.S. Adults for Continuing Increased Unemployment Payments Due to Covid-19, as of August 2020, by Political Party." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Aug 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/
YouGov, Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/ (last visited December 31, 2024)
Support among U.S. adults for continuing increased unemployment payments due to COVID-19, as of August 2020, by political party [Graph], YouGov, August 5, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1139431/support-us-adults-continuing-increased-unemployment-payments-coronavirus-party/
