SRI Surveys In The News
Foundations For A Just And Inclusive Recovery
The Cornell Survey Research Institute worked with the survey research firm SSRS to administer the Just Recovery Survey. 3,100 respondents, who were not retired or permanently out of the labor market, participated. According to the survey's authors, the survey "[M]easures how U.S. workers—particularly low paid and frontline workers, Black and Latinx workers, and women workers—are experiencing and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic..."
Among the survey's key findings:
- "Workers...especially Black and Latinx workers, are experiencing devastating death tolls in their personal networks. Forty-two percent of Black workers and 40% of Latinx workers, compared to 23% of white workers, said they knew someone who died from COVID-19 at the time of the survey."
- "Employers are committing wage theft during the pandemic and stealing wages from Black workers at higher rates than from white workers."
- "Banks and landlords are targeting Black workers for eviction and foreclosure at higher rates than white workers."
The survey was conducted online in September and October of 2020. It was funded by Color Of Change, National Employment Law Project, Time's Up Foundation, and the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR.
Employee Non-Compete Agreements
Millions of private-sector workers across the country have signed non-compete agreements, limiting their right to work after leaving their current jobs.
- Economic Policy Institute: Noncompete agreements (Web) (PDF)
- Lexology.com: Protecting Employees Against Unfair Non-Compete Agreements (log in required)
Sexual Harassment In The Workplace
Results from Cornell Survey Research Institute's annual Empire State Poll find one out of ten adult New Yorkers report experiencing "someone in a position of authority at their workplace trying to trade job benefits for sexual favors." The report also finds that quid pro quo sexual harassment disproportionately affects people of color and those of Hispanic origin.
- ILR Worker Institute: Quid Pro Quo Workplace Sexual Harassment Widespread Across New York State
- HRDive: 1 in 10 New Yorkers say they've experienced 'quid pro quo' sexual harassment
- WBFO.org: Workplace sexual harassment widespread in NYS, according to Cornell report
- Cornell University ILR School: Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State: Past, Present, and a Possible Future (research report PDF)
Regionalized Surgical Care
Over the past 15 years, there has been a growing body of evidence demonstrating better surgical outcomes when patients are treated at high-volume centers.... However, a number of significant challenges to regionalization have not yet been addressed... Americans are divided on whether the potential for improved survival with regionalization is worth the additional travel effort.
- Ovid Technologies: Barriers to Regionalized Surgical Care: Public Perspective Survey and Geospatial Analysis
Weight Loss Surgery
Obesity is a major epidemic in the United States, and available data show that weight loss surgery may be the best way to maintain weight loss and improve health... The results of our national survey are, to our knowledge, the first to suggest that a large percentage of the population has negative attitudes toward weight loss surgery. The high prevalence of these attitudes potentially creates a difficult social environment for patients who opt for weight loss surgery.
- JAMA Network: Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Weight Loss Surgery in the United States
- AJMC: Patients Who Could Benefit From Weight Loss Surgery May Be Deterred by Public Attitudes
- Reuters: Stigma may keep people from getting weight loss surgery
Quitting Facebook
Gender, marital status, social ideology, household income, employment, race, and (perhaps surprisingly) weight are all factors that contribute to determining who uses and who doesn't use Facebook. Facebook use is more common among respondents who are middle-aged, female, not seeking employment, of Asian descent, or currently married.
- Eric P. S. Baumer: Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Non/use of Facebook (PDF).
- EurekAlert: Thinking about quitting Facebook? There's a demographic analysis for that
Federal And State Programs
A 2008 poll from the Cornell Survey Research Institute famously found 57 percent of Americans saying they'd never benefited from "a government social program"—even as 94 percent of that group subsequently acknowledged benefiting from at least one program, when they were asked about 21 federal policies individually.
- New York Magazine Intelligencer: Scott Walker Will Give 671,000 Wisconsin Families an Election-Year Check
The Empire State Poll, conducted by the Cornell Survey Research Institute... found that statewide two-thirds (66.7%) of employed New Yorkers in households with incomes below $50,000 had heard little or nothing about New York's paid family leave program.
- Community Service Society: The State Of Worker's Rights In New York City
College-to-Work Transition & Alcohol Misuse: An Etiologic Study
Recent research suggests that the maturing out phase from alcohol abuse may last beyond the age of 22. Over 1/3 of the 40% of students abusing alcohol in college continue to do so well after graduation. Given that most grads enter the workforce between the ages of 21-24, many graduates may carry college drinking patterns with them as they enter the fulltime workforce. Consequently, the college-to-work (C2W) transition—a key phase in the transition to adulthood—may be a critical point to intervene.
- Journal of Applied Psychology: Does College Alcohol Consumption Impact Employment upon Graduation? Findings from a Prospective Study
- Addictive Behaviors: When the Party Continues: Impulsivity and the Effect of Employment of Young Adults' Post-college Alcohol Use