What's Your Problem?

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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Welcome to Front Page, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:

1. What's Your Problem?

Bar Chart: The issues Americans say are the most important problems facing the nation in 2023.

Every month, we ask Americans to name the most important problem facing the country. Even without debt ceiling brinksmanship making headline news, "the government" tends to take the No. 1 spot most months, for years now. In May, about as many people mentioned immigration as the top problem as named inflation.
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2. Hybrid's High Season

Line Chart: 52% of remote-capable U.S. employees work a hybrid job in 2023.

With kids out of school and workers eyeing some vacation time to enjoy the warm weather, summer is arguably the time of year when employees need their work schedule to flex the most. Today, half of America's workers can happily juggle all of that more effectively due to their hybrid work arrangements — but it may also be a time of talent loss for those employers who refuse to flex with their workers.
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3. Drama in the Balkans

Bar Chart: Approval and disapproval of NATO's job performance among adults in Kosovo and Serbia.

While NATO and Russia face off in Ukraine, another East-West fault line has flared up in Kosovo. After elections mostly boycotted by ethnic Serbs placed ethnic Albanians in mayorships of predominantly Serbian communities, NATO peacekeeping troops who were defending town halls were attacked by Serbian protesters. Few populations find themselves more on the NATO-Moscow fault line than Serbia and Kosovo.
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4. Stressed Out and Stopping Out

Bar Chart: Comparing stress and COVID-19 as reasons for

In our latest work with Lumina Foundation, we continued to drill down on one of the key shifts taking place across higher ed institutions: declining enrollment rates. Among all currently enrolled students who have considered stopping out, 55% cite emotional stress as the reason, irrespective of the degree program they are pursuing. We also explored how often students experience emotional stress in their program.
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5. Who Do You Believe (In)?

Bar Chart: Top eight public individuals for news and information in the U.S., by number of mentions.

We know from our research with Knight Foundation that the individuals presenting news and information are an important factor in which news sources Americans trust. We asked just under 3,000 respondents to name the one person they follow the most for information. And while the names at the top may not surprise you, most stunning to yours truly was that the entire top 20 list includes only two women: Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace.
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And that's Front Page!

Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup

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