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Americans Are Misinformed about Poverty, but Widely Involved in Helping the Poor
| posted 11/02/2007
The Barna Groupwww.barna.org
June 25, 2007 (Ventura, CA)
A new national survey by The Barna Group regarding people's perspectives on poverty shows that Americans are quite concerned about what they perceive to be a significant and growing challenge facing the nation. The survey also showed that most people are actively involved in trying to alleviate poverty, although they typically believe it is primarily the government's job to do so. The religious faith of adults appears to have a limited influence on how people perceive and respond to poverty.
Overestimating the Incidence
Three out of four adults (72%) consider poverty to be one of the most serious social problems facing the United States today. That includes one out of every five adults (21%) who contend that poverty is the single, most serious social problem of all. Just 4% argue that poverty is not much of a problem in the U.S.
Interestingly, evangelical Christians were only half as likely (11%) as the rest of the adult population ...
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