43% SUPPORT | 39% OPPOSE | 18% NO OPINION |

In a new poll of 1,994 registered US voters done by Morning Consult for Politico conducted September 14-17, one of the questions posed was "Do you support a proposal in which the government would provide all Americans a regular, unconditional sum of money, sometimes referred to as universal basic income."

More people expressed their support than their opposition, with 43% for UBI and 39% against it meaning that there is now plurality support for basic income in the US.

An earlier poll conducted by Ipsos in June of 2017 of approximately 1,000 Americans showed 38% were in support of basic income, 38% were in opposition, and 24% were neither.

This appears to show an impressive increase in support of the idea of basic income over a span of just three months, mostly among people moving from being undecided to deciding they support it.

If we dive into the newest polling data (which you can do for yourself here), we also find some interesting details.

46% of men support UBI and 39% of women support UBI, but 40% of both men and women oppose it. This means that right now more women oppose UBI than support it.

However, whereas 14% of men have no opinion on UBI, 21% of women have no opinion. So this appears to be an issue of the UBI not being discussed by enough women for women to have formed an opinion either way.

The age group with most support for UBI is 30-44 instead of 18-29 which would have been my guess.

Support for UBI goes down as education level goes up. Highest support is among those with high school degrees or less, and lowest support is post-graduates. This to me appears to show that those getting economically left behind like the idea, and those who the economy still works for, don't seem to see the need perhaps because they aren't in need.

Looking at the next table, we see strong support for UBI from African Americans with 61% in support versus 39% support for whites.

Not surprisingly support for UBI goes up as income goes down with 46% support under $50k and 29% support over $100k.

39% of Christians support UBI vs 49% support from non-Christians. There is majority support among atheists and agnostics with 51% support.

Highest support for UBI is not among the unemployed but instead among homemakers and government employees, both with 50% support.

Strongest support for UBI comes from those whose #1 issue is Energy, with a whopping 63% support. That makes sense considering strong support for UBI among Green party voters. Weakest support is from those whose #1 issue is Security with 34% in support.

The highest support for UBI is in the West with 45% followed by the South with 43%. NE and Midwest are both 41%.

About a third of Trump voters support UBI with 32% support. Highest support is from Hillary voters at 56% majority support.

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