Public Opinion
| Publication | Category | Topic |
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| Data Snapshot: “Trump Towns” Swung Democratic in New Hampshire Midterms New Hampshire municipalities with fewer college-educated residents, which generally offered strong support for Donald Trump two years ago, swung toward the opposing party in the 2018 midterms.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Civic Attitudes, Demography, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Public Awareness of Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Is Rising Among scientists who study the Earth’s climate, there is overwhelming agreement that humans are causing rapid change.1 Surveys find that the U.S. public underestimates the extent to which scientists agree on this point,2 but public awareness is gradually rising (… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Public Opinion |
| Challenge and Hope in the North Country Hit hard by the national decline in natural-resource and manufacturing jobs, North Country communities in northern New Hampshire and bordering areas of Maine and Vermont (Figure 1) continue to face challenges in restructuring their economies.1 A 2008 study classified… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Community, Economic Development, Migration, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Rural, Unemployment |
| Data Snapshot: Public Acceptance of Human-Caused Climate Change Is Gradually Rising Have recent extreme weather events in the United States shifted public opinion on climate change? In late summer and fall 2017, disaster headlines were common. Hurricanes caused damage along the Gulf Coast, and brought devastation to Puerto Rico and the Virgin… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, Environment, Public Opinion |
| The Zika Virus Threat Shocking images of infants with severe birth defects in Brazil introduced the world to the devastating effects of the Zika virus. This mosquito-borne illness spread rapidly across Latin America and into the United States. News stories highlighting locally transmitted… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Health, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Trust |
| On Renewable Energy and Climate, Trump Voters Stand Apart Globally, 2016 was the warmest year on record, surpassing records set in 2015 and 2014,1 and each new record emphasizes the longer-term upward trend. Though not every place on Earth experienced warming effects last year, they were quite evident in many areas. Rising… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, Energy, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
| Where Is the North Pole? The north and south polar regions have been rapidly changing, affecting global weather and sea levels and sparking international concern about shipping and resources. While these global impacts occur, physical changes such as warming and less ice directly affect… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Climate Change, Environment, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Paid Family and Medical Leave in New Hampshire Life events such as an illness, the birth of a child, or a parent’s need for care require workers to take extended time away from their jobs. The aging of the New Hampshire population and the rise of women in the labor force mean that more workers in the state are… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| Was December Warm? In 2015 New Hampshire experienced its warmest December on record. The temperature exceeded twentieth century average temperatures by a wider margin than for any month in historical records dating back to 1895. In February 2016, as part of an ongoing… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Climate Change, New Hampshire, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Trump and Sanders Supporters Differ Sharply on Key Scientific Fact During the week of September 17–23, a WMUR/CNN poll by the UNH Survey Center1 asked more than 700 New Hampshire residents who they would vote for, given hypothetical pairs of candidates. For example, Suppose the 2016 presidential election was being… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Politics and Elections, Public Opinion |
