Economics and Personal Finances

Focus groups held across the two nations reveal the degree to which Americans and Britons see common challenges to local and national identity.

Before COVID-19, wages, job availability and health care costs mattered more than the stock market in Americans' views of how the economy was doing.

Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.

Assessments of national economies have seen swift downturns in many countries, and few see improvements anytime soon.

The pandemic has had a divisive effect on a sense of national unity in many of the countries surveyed: A median of 46% feel more national unity now than before the coronavirus outbreak, while 48% think divisions have grown.

As the nation’s economy contracted at a record rate in recent months, the group’s unemployment rate rose sharply, particularly among Hispanic women, and remains higher among Hispanic workers than U.S. workers overall.

Compared with 2000, suburban populations are less engaged in the labor market, experiencing declining incomes and seeing home values that have not kept pace with those of the central cities.

About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.

Republicans and Democrats remain far apart in their views of the threat to public health posed by the coronavirus outbreak.

Distress levels changed little overall from March to April, but this concealed considerable change at the individual level over this period.