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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Quinnipiac Poll: Americans Expect a Recession

Thursday, May 19, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Economic Security

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Source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/05/19/quinnipiac-poll-americans-expect-recession/

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An overwhelming majority of Americans are expecting there to be a recession within the next year, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

The poll found that 85 percent of Americans think it is likely for the country to go through an economic recession in the next year. Of those who responded, 45 percent said it is “very likely,” and 40 percent said “somewhat likely” for a recession.

Only 12 percent said they did not think it was likely or not likely to see a recession.

In fact, the poll also found that only 19 percent of Americans think that the nation’s economy is in good shape, while 80 percent said that it is not in good shape. Of those who responded to the question, 34 percent said “not so good,” and 46 percent said the economy was “poor.”

Quinnipiac noted this is the “most negative description” of the county’s economy since President Joe Biden took office last year.

When the respondents were asked about how much control the president had over the rapidly rising inflation — which has seen a 40-year high — only 29 percent said “a lot,” 38 percent said “some,” 23 percent said “only a little,” while ten percent said “none.”

Broken down by party, 52 percent of Republicans said that Biden has a lot of control over the rising inflation. In comparison, only eight percent of Democrats said he has a lot of control over the increasing inflation.

Overall, there was 35 percent who gave Biden a positive job approval. In comparison, 57 percent had an unfavorable view. This is down from the April 27 poll that showed Biden has a slightly higher 38 percent approval and 52 percent negative review.

The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted from May 12-16 and asked 1,586 U.S. adults nationwide with an overall margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points.

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