Views about government aid to the poor among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services by views about government aid to the poor
% of adults who would rather have a bigger government with more services who say government aid to the poor…
Religious denomination | Does more harm than good | Does more good than harm | Neither/both equally | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 29% | 65% | 5% | 1% | 207 |
Assemblies of God | 26% | 69% | 3% | 2% | 130 |
Church of God in Christ | 31% | 64% | 2% | 3% | 108 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 30% | 67% | 3% | < 1% | 113 |
Churches of Christ | 26% | 71% | 1% | 2% | 161 |
Episcopal Church | 9% | 88% | 3% | < 1% | 179 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 17% | 81% | 2% | < 1% | 187 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 36% | 57% | 4% | 3% | 206 |
National Baptist Convention | 22% | 72% | 4% | 2% | 330 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 25% | 69% | 3% | 3% | 103 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 30% | 65% | 3% | 2% | 890 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 25% | 72% | 2% | 1% | 1,260 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 11% | 87% | < 1% | 1% | 146 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 34% | 62% | 2% | 2% | 405 |
Unitarian | 5% | 94% | 1% | < 1% | 110 |
United Methodist Church | 23% | 74% | 3% | 1% | 412 |
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