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    Faith-Based Funding: Broad Support, Profound Questions

    Washington, D.C. Data presented by: Andrew Kohut, Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Discussants: Sulayman Nyang, Professor of African Studies, Howard University and Director, Muslims in American Public Square project Melissa Rogers, Executive Director, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Marshall Wittman, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Alan Wolfe, Professor […]

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    From Promise to Policy: A Discussion of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

    National Press Club Washington, D.C. Discussants: John DiIulio, White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Richard Foltin, American Jewish Committee Senator Rick Santorum,(R-PA) Representative Bobby Scott, (D-VA) Jim Wallis, Call to Renewal Moderated by: E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution and Co-Chair, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life See press […]

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    For Goodness’ Sake: Why So Many Want Religion to Play a Greater Role in American Life

    Washington, D.C. Data presented by: Deborah Wadsworth, President, Public Agenda Steve Farkas, Director of Research and Senior Vice President, Public Agenda Respondents: Andrew Kohut, Director, Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Rev. Eugene F. Rivers, 3d, Co-Chair, National TenPoint Leadership Foundation Michael J. Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University Matthew Spalding, Director, […]

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    God Fearing Voters, God Fearing Candidates: Does Religion Really Matter in the 2000 Elections?

    Washington, D.C. Panel E.J. Dionne, The Brookings Institution Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press Michael Cromartie, The Evangelical Community in American Civic Life project, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center David Devlin-Foltz, The Public Role of Mainline Protestantism project, and the Aspen Institute Alan Mittleman, Center for Jewish Community […]

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    Performance and Purpose; Constituents Rate Government Agencies

    Introduction and Summary Americans have long been ambivalent, if not downright conflicted, in their attitudes toward the federal government. They rail against the government’s inefficiency, but clamor for government programs that benefit them. Since the era of Vietnam and Watergate, a majority of Americans have said they can seldom trust the government to do the […]

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    In the Public Interest?

    The news media offered the American public a fine education in campaign tactics but told them little about matters that actually will affect them as citizens in the weeks leading up to the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.

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    Public Cool To Presidential Pay Raise

    Introduction and Summary There is little public support for a plan to give the president a pay raise for the first time since 1969. When told that the president’s salary has not been increased since 1969, 49% favor a pay raise for the next president to take office, while 39% oppose it. But when people […]

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