美国在担忧这些问题，六成民众失去信心

美联社和全国民意研究中心要求美国人列举他们认为美国政府应当在今年处理的5个问题，并且说出他们对政府解决这些问题的能力抱有多大的信心。被提及最多的问题是恐怖主义、医疗卫生、外来移民、教育和失业，其他问题还包括枪支、种族关系和国家安全。

但多达61%的受访者对政府解决这些问题的能力没有信心，30%的人抱有一定信心。只有8%的人很有或极度有信心，还有剩下1%不知道或拒绝回答。

这项民调发现，共和党员和民主党人都认为，失业和医疗卫生是两件头等大事，不过两党对其他问题的看法有所区别。共和党人更倾向于将外交政策视为美国最大的问题之一，而民主党人则更关注国内议题。

超过三分之二的受访者至少提到一项经济议题。两党人士（24%）都特别关心失业问题。但在其他重要的经济问题上，两党的关注点存在分歧。贫困（13%）是民主党人最关心的问题，而共和党则更加关注是税收（13%）和财政赤字（12%）。

接近三分之一的人认为医疗卫生是最重要的国内问题，随后是教育（25%）、气候变化（18%）和枪支（15%）。此外，提及人数不足10%的国内问题包括收入不平等、种族关系、治安、福利改革和社会保障。约有80%的受访者至少提到一项国内问题。

恐怖主义（34%）是被提到最多的外交政策问题，紧随其后的是移民问题（29%）、国家安全（9%）和战争（6%）。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

审校：任文科

Terrorism, health care, and immigration top the list of concerns that Americans want government to address, a new poll found—and a majority have little to no confidence that the U.S. can actually do anything about them.

The Associated Press and NORC (National Opinion Research Center) asked Americans to cite up to five issues they think the government should address this year, and their confidence in government’s ability to resolve them. The most commonly mentioned were terrorism, health care, immigration, education, and unemployment; others included guns, race relations, and national security.

But a whopping 61% of those polled have little to no confidence in the government’s ability to resolve any of these issues; 30% are moderately confident. Just 8% are very or extremely confident, and the remaining 1% either don’t know or refused to answer.

The poll found Republicans and Democrats agree that unemployment and health care should be two of our top priorities, but the two parties tend to disagree on other issues. Republicans were more likely to mention a foreign policy issue as one of the country’s biggest concerns, while Democrats appeared to be more concerned with domestic issues.

Over two-thirds of poll-takers identified at least one economic issue as one of their top priorities. Unemployment, which was named by both parties equally, was the top concern with 24%. Aside from that, the two parties disagreed on which economy-related issues were most important. Poverty, mentioned by 13%, was a bigger concern among Democrats, while taxes and the budget deficit, which were mentioned by 13% and 12% of those surveyed respectively, were more highly prioritized by Republicans.

Nearly a third of people identified health care as a top domestic issue, followed by education (25%), climate change (18%), and guns (15%). Other domestic issues, identified by less than 10%, included income inequality, race relations, policing matters, welfare reform, and social security. About 80% of all those polled named at least one domestic issue as a top priority.

Terrorism was the most commonly mentioned foreign policy issue with 34%, and immigration followed as a close second with 29%. National security was a priority for 9% of people, and war was a priority for 6%.