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Rising Worries About the Job Market
by Michael Dimock, Associate Director for Research, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

While the latest labor statistics reported fewer job losses than analysts expected, the American public is expressing increasing concern about job availability. But those worries are not as widespread as in the 1992 election-year downturn, when majorities at all income levels judged jobs to be in short supply. Instead, today’s worries are far more heavily concentrated in the lower portions of the income spectrum.

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