Brian Nienaber

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Marketplace All-in-One · What do American families really care about right now? · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

Oh, sure.

Thanks, Kimberly, and thank you everyone for having me.

I appreciate it very much.

I think the biggest thing I can take away from data is the thing I've seen over and over again in the surveys we've done this year is there's a real high level of economic anxiety among voters that people are worried about inflation, cost of living.

And so that then becomes this anxiety that sort of is the lens that they see everything else through.

And so when you come to them, you can have a wonderful public policy idea that's going to serve people well and have wonderful outcomes.

But if someone perceives, well, this is going to raise my rent or raise my property taxes or I'm going to be out more money and this is going to get me even closer to maybe missing my rent or mortgage payment or having one of my utility bills slide, you're going to have a much harder time making a sale with that person.

Yeah, I'd say, I mean, I think the surprising thing is we're privileged to do some bipartisan stuff on these issues earlier last year.

And, you know, there's a lot of things that do pull in a bipartisan way well, that people do want good outcomes for students.

They do want accountability in schools.

They do want, you know, parents to have policies that help them kind of figure out how to balance child care and working and education and those things.

You know, where the divergence comes is there's sometimes less intense support where the public is because they're looking for how much does this cost and what's the return on investment going to be?

What's the outcome going to look like?

But I think at the basic level, there does tends to be a lot of sort of uniform agreement that, you know,

Doing policies that help people be better in the early education for children, be better in their elementary, be better in their high school years is remarkably popular.

And everything from tax policy to things as seemingly mundane as phone bans in school that have become remarkably popular and have such good outcomes.

But there seems to be a general sentiment among electorate that

You know, having good outcomes for children is obviously going to be a long-term benefit for society as, you know, all these children are going to grow up to be our adults and leaders of tomorrow.

Yeah, thank you.

That's a great question.

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