blue respondents<\/span> thinking that charity is the best way to address hunger, it is pretty clear that those who know best do not think that the job can be done best through charity alone.<\/p>\nSo here is what we learned from this survey on addressing hunger in America:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Most Americans think that the way to address hunger in America is through a combination of charity and government assistance.<\/li>\n
- The people in our society who are the poorest and most likely to be recipients of charity and government assistance do not have very much confidence in the effectiveness of charity alone.<\/li>\n
- By a factor of ten<\/strong>, Republicans are more inclined to favor charity as the sole solution to hunger in America than Democrats are.<\/li>\n
- Perhaps most importantly, this may be why charitable giving by Republicans is greater than that of either Democrats in the United States or Europeans as a whole. However, the Democratic view that government assistance is a much better way to solve hunger than charity is very consistent with the strong support that Bernie Sanders has received in his presidential bid.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Bernie has touched many nerves in the electorate, and this survey clearly demonstrates that one of them is that his own party is much more supportive of government programs than with voluntary charity.<\/p>\n
*Occasional Planet interviewed 550 Americans on January 14-15, 2016, using the services of the online-site Survey Monkey. The sample size is reliable +\/- 4.5%, 95% of the time. It is demographically balanced by gender, ethnicity, age, income and geographic region.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/a>If charity was the answer to our problems, then there would be no homelessness in America, no poverty in general. We would have a much better health care system and school systems that truly met the needs of children and society\u2019s common good. But this is not the way that it is, much to the chagrin of Republicans.<\/p>\n