Striking findings from 2025
Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of our most striking research findings.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
28% of Americans rate economic conditions as excellent or good, a 9 percentage point increase from last April. And the share who say economic conditions will be worse a year from now has fallen during this timespan, from 46% to 33%.
As has been the case for nearly two decades, a majority of Americans are expressing dissatisfaction with the current state of the nation. Today, 29% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country, while 70% of Americans say they are dissatisfied. While overall public satisfaction has risen since […]
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About three-in-ten Americans (28%) currently rate national economic conditions as excellent or good, while a similar share (31%) say they are poor and about four-in-ten (41%) view them as “only fair.” While ratings remain substantially lower than they were prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are more positive than they were last […]
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