Heading into midterms, Americans still as bummed out as they were in 2012, 2010
Despite somewhat better feelings about the economy, Americans’ collective mood is much the same as it was ahead of the last two general elections.
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Despite somewhat better feelings about the economy, Americans’ collective mood is much the same as it was ahead of the last two general elections.
The current economic recovery, which hit the five-year mark this month, has underperformed other recent expansions that have lasted at least as long.
Generation X has a gripe with pulse takers, zeitgeist keepers, and population counters. We keep squeezing them out of the frame.
Two-thirds of Americans say the gap between the rich and everyone else has increased, but when asked why they cite dozens of different reasons.
One of the biggest political puzzles of 2014 is why the public remains so bearish about the economy, and in turn critical of Barack Obama’s stewardship of it, given clear signs that economic indicators are improving. An analysis by Andrew Kohut.
While the stock market has been surging, there is a big gap who who benefits that has implications for the strength of the economic recovery.
Americans have a pretty good sense of how well different aspects of the economy have — and haven’t — recovered from the Great Recession.
A compilation of the top 15 stories in which public opinion played a significant role, and the year’s most notable “non-barking dogs.”
Once again, public opinion played a major role in the most important news stories of the year. Some of the strongest 2006 trends in public opinion carried over from previous years — notably growing concern about the Iraq war and mounting dissatisfaction with the performance of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Beyond partisanship — and behind those healthy economic indicators — Americans may be seeing something that most economists overlook.
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