More Data, Better Planning, Less Politics: Chapter 2

UST COVID-19 Resident Survey 1 highlights: While concerns about physical health continue, fiscal concerns are prevalent and on the rise.

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Over the upcoming weeks, we’ll continue to share UST Resident Survey 1 highlights to keep you up to date on key trends impacting the nation. These highlights provide insight into the UST community, the national community, and comparisons of the two.

  • We are concerned about our immediate health risk, and are staying at home as much as possible. We are most concerned about the risks involved in shopping for groceries and other needed items.
  • Keeping everyone safe and away from this virus, and NOT relaxing the restrictions so soon as it will threaten us all
  • Staying healthy and not spreading the illness. And secondarily, when we can get back to work.
  • Our only concern is the well-being and health of healthcare workers who are on the front lines every day
  • Potential exposure while visiting Grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations
  • Safety and health. Overcoming lack of information and misinformation.
  • The spread and ability of hospitals to meet the needs of the community
  • Going out exposing myself — getting groceries, medicines. I have autoimmune conditions and poor immunity, fragile and alone.
  • Maintaining quarantine as a means of social responsibility, as well as staying healthy.
  • How to maintain or get back up on our feet with no work available, how to feed our pets and ourselves and keep bills from spiraling out of control, rent and truck payments, utilities etc. If either of us fall ill, that is the greatest concern to access medical care with no insurance and long term health issues from a sustained illness.
  • Getting the country back to work so that the economic damage is not greater than Covid.
  • Earning income to pay bills.
  • An extended macroeconomic event that will affect more than current environment.
  • Worried about employer needing to do layoffs.
  • Trying to conserve financially in case this stretches longer than we expect it to and our jobs become obsolete.
  • Running out of money. My husband’s restaurant is about to close.
  • Making mortgage & vehicle payments.
  • My retirement assets are being financially destroyed. My adult children’s rental income has been cut in half. My adult son is not employed and not eligible for unemployment compensation and his wife is pregnant.
  • Living off retirement savings based on devastated stock values.
  • Staying safe, going broke.
  • How do residents feel about recovery and eliminating quarantine measures?
  • What policies or actions ease residents’ minds or make them more comfortable or uncomfortable?
  • How has COVID-19 affected resident spending and are those spending changes short term?
  • What challenges do residents face going back to work?

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Using new data to educate and engage community coalitions on the issues left behind by today’s divisive politics.

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Using new data to educate and engage community coalitions on the issues left behind by today’s divisive politics.