[NLA] NLA Info: MassINC opinion research

[John Comings]

David mentioned an opinion poll that was undertaken by UMass in 
support of MassINC's Awareness and Action Campaign, which is 
following up on the New Skills for a New Economy report.  I just came 
back from a meeting in which one of the UMass team, Lou DiNatale, 
presented the findings.

He said the data indicates that basic skills education has very 
strong support among likely voters in MA and that most of these 
voters believe that the state government has a responsibility to help 
adults with limited reading, writing, math and English skills but 
that government should partner with business to meet that 
responsibility, and that not enough is now being done.  Lou said that 
the polling data is definitely strong enough to gain the attention of 
politicians.

The data collection ended on 9/10 and so was unaffected by the 9/11 
events.  Some of the data tables have opinions from July 2001 and 
September 2001 and some show an increase in support.

The report is available at:


http://www.massinc.org/publications/reports/New_Skills/nsne_campaign/opinion_research2.html

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