Poll: Americans like the idea of Affirmative Action, remain suspicious of special treatment
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The Supreme Court this week upheld a 2006 Michigan law banning publicly funded colleges from granting “preferential admissions treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.” Let’s see how affirmative action is regarded in the nation at large with Frank Newport, editor in chief at the Gallup Poll.
American public opinion of Affirmative Action is complex. Most Americans like the concept, but they are suspicious of special treatment in college admissions.
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