{"id":155,"date":"2026-04-04T13:50:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:06:25","slug":"political-economy-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=155","title":{"rendered":"Political Economy Research and Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Labor Institute partners with the Center for Working Class Politics and the Rutgers University labor education program to produce extensive surveys on voter attitudes towards politics, policies, and alternative political institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"783\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-2.02.26-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-490 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 575px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 575\/783;aspect-ratio:0.7343805642385154;width:217px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-2.02.26-PM.png 575w, https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-2.02.26-PM-220x300.png 220w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first survey found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Voters, especially working-class voters are eight percent less likely to support a Democrat compared to an independent even if their platforms are identical.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fifty-seven percent of all voters in Rust Belt states supported a new workers political association independent of the two major parties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are now creating a new survey that focuses on ultra red districts to determine what kind of populist economic platform would have the most political support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=72\">Learn more: Runaway Inequality<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/images.jacobinmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/06162308\/CWCP-report-251006-1.pdf\">Survey of Midwestern Voters<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Institute partners with the Center for Working Class Politics and the Rutgers University labor education program to produce extensive surveys on voter attitudes towards politics, policies, and alternative political institutions. Our first survey found: We are now creating a new survey that focuses on ultra red districts to determine what kind of populist &#8230; <a title=\"Political Economy Research and Reports\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/?page_id=155\" aria-label=\"Read more about Political Economy Research and Reports\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-155","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelaborinstitute.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}