The Pew Research Center conducted a national current events survey of about 1,000 adults who are representative of the US population. The results are discouraging. (If you want to take the multiple-choice quiz yourself before seeing how other Americans answered, click over to Pew.) Most adult Americans who took the quiz couldn’t name the chair of the US Federal Reserve Board or correctly identify the current unemployment rate. Only 20% of respondents could pick out the percentage of Americans living at or below the federal poverty line or identify what the US government spends the most money on. Respondents had …read more
Source: Business Insider
