SCE PUBLIC POLICY SURVEY
At a Glance: Findings from the August 2024 SCE Public Policy Survey
- The average perceived likelihood of an expansion in housing assistance or affordable housing increased to 37.4 percent in August, up from 34.6 percent in April. This is the highest reading since December 2022.
- The average perceived likelihoods of increases in the gasoline tax, payroll tax, average income tax rate, and income tax rate for the highest bracket all declined in August. The average probability assigned to an increase in the payroll tax reached its lowest level since August 2020.
- Average expectations of increases in federal welfare benefits, social security benefits, unemployment benefits, and of an expansion in Medicare all decreased in August.
Editor’s Note: We are currently working through some technical issues in the interactive charts regarding the display of dates along the x-axis. As a result, data for November 2015-2016 are currently not presented in the interactive charts; data for all years remain available to download, however.
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The SCE Public Policy Survey is fielded every four months as a rotating module of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE). The data are updated online as results come in.
