Centering historically minoritized populations to design effective messages about an evidence-based policy to advance social equity.

ABSTRACT: Researchers have raised concerns that messages describing racial disparities in social outcomes can reduce or polarize support for public policies to address inequality. We questioned this assumption by testing the impact of carefully crafted messages about child tax credit (CTC) expansion. We conducted two randomized message trials, study 1 using Prolific's nonprobability panel (n = 1,402) and study 2 using SSRS's Opinion Panel, a web-based probability sample of US adults (n = 4,483). Each study included comparably sized subsamples of Black, Hispanic, and White respondents from across the political spectrum. Study 1 compared six candidate messages to a control message and identified promising message strategies for replication. Study 2 compared two messages advocating for CT

SUBMITTER: Niederdeppe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11736707 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature