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What percentage of American adults think the government should do a lot more to reduce income differences?

38.8% of American adults think the government should do a lot more to reduce income differences - about 39 in every 100, or 4 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

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38.8

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item EQWLTH (“Should govt reduce income differences”), counting responses 1=the government should reduce income differences, 2=2. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 2,161.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
35.69% to 41.91% (derived from the published standard error)

NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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