Civic Engagement, Elections, and Voting: Voter Research

Official Sources of Information

According to U.S. News & World Report, the most important issues for voters in the United States as of July 10, 2024 are:

• Cost of living/inflation - 70%

• Access to abortion and reproductive rights - 40%

• Gun violence/control - 31%

• Climate - 28%

• Border security and immigration - 26%

• Student loan debt - 21%

• Israel-Hamas war - 20%

• Supreme Court - 17%

• Mental health - 17%

• Rebuilding confidence in public institutions - 16%

• AI technology development/control - 7%

• Childcare - 7%

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Local Voter Guides and Candidate Information

Recommended HCC library databases for researching important social issues are:

Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints

(Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.)

 Newsbank

(NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of national, Texas, and Houston-area newspaper titles, blogs, television broadcast transcripts and more.)

 ProQuest's SIRS Issues Researcher

(A suite of databases providing access to periodical articles, reference materials, pictures, government documents, and selected Internet sites, related to a wide range of topics.)