Forty-four percent of U.S. adults say they are financially “better off” than they were a year ago, while slightly more than one in three (35%) say they are “worse off.” Another one in five (21%) say their financial situation is about the same. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Half of Americans Unprepared for Sudden Financial Need
About half of Americans believe they do not have enough money on hand to “make a major purchase, such as a car, appliance or furniture, or pay for a significant home repair” if they needed to. CONT. Frank Newport, Gallup Read more »
Kaiser/NYT Survey: 1 in 5 Working-Age Americans With Health Insurance Report Problems Paying Medical Bills
Among people with health insurance, one in five (20%) working-age Americans report having problems paying medical bills in the past year that often cause serious financial challenges and changes in employment and lifestyle, finds a comprehensive new Kaiser Family Foundation/New York Times survey. As expected, the situation is even worse […] Read more »
Whites and Republicans Rank as Angriest Americans
Nearly half of Americans are angry, and no groups are angrier than whites and Republicans, according to a new NBC News/Survey Monkey/Esquire online poll about outrage in the country. CONT. Andrew Rafferty, NBC News Read more »
How Is the Economy Doing? It May Depend on Your Party, and $1
… It turns out that the partisan bias in how people answer factual questions about the economy is diminished by this one weird trick: Pay people. That is a conclusion reached in two new papers in The Quarterly Journal of Political Science, one from four scholars led by John G. […] Read more »
Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Improves in December
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index®, which had decreased moderately in November, improved in December. The Index now stands at 96.5 (1985=100), up from 92.6 in November. CONT. Conference Board Read more »