Overview
Click to view and download The Children’s Agenda’s 2025 Statewide Voter Poll results on issues including Child Care, Affordability & Family Economic Security, Early Intervention Services, and Education (Pre-K to 12).
Key Findings:
- At a time when cost of living concerns trump everything else, voters want their state leaders to spend more, not less, on helping families and children – even in the face of federal funding cuts. Even when presented with a strong argument in favor of fiscal responsibility, two-thirds of voters believe the state needs to invest in families and children
- Family-friendly policies should be central political and legislative narratives in 2026. These policies garner rare cross-partisan support. Across party lines, large majorities of voters want to make housing, health care, and child care more affordable for low-income families. There’s also bipartisan support for universal child care and pre-K; increasing funding for afterschool; investing in school-based mental health and counseling programs; and increasing the reimbursement rate for EI therapists.
- Parents are a critical voting bloc. As a group, they split evenly on partisanship, making them more Republican-leaning than the rest of the electorate. However, as they evaluate these policies, their worries about making ends meet are more determinative than their political leanings. They are highly receptive to policies that help families and children and are looking for leaders who will embrace them.