ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a broad range of public policy issues facing American society. It analyses Latino and Anglo positions on issues facing the nation and the respondent’s community; attitudes toward government spending; perceptions of discrimination; language and cultural policy; immigration policy; foreign policy; gender issues; and other public policy issues. The majority of Latinos, regardless of national origin, identified social problems as the most-important issues facing the nation. For all Latino national-origin groups, as well as for Anglos, economic issues, such as employment, were identified as the second-most-important problem facing the nation. On a broad range of domestic issues—crime and drugs, education, health, child services, the environment—the majority of Latinos believed that federal spending should increase, even if it necessitated an increase in their taxes. Regardless of national origin, the majority of Latino respondents reported that they had not been discriminated against because of their ethnicity.
