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Half of Americans Worried About Their Finances

April 23, 2025 Buck Banks

53%

A new Gallup poll finds that 53% of Americans believe their financial situation is worsening. That figure marks the first time since 2001 that the majority of Gallup’s respondents expressed fears that their finances are not improving.

Gallup: Onky One in Five Americans Satisfied with State of the Country

December 27, 2024 Buck Banks

19%

A new Gallup poll finds 19% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., slightly lower than the 22% to 26% readings in recent months and the lowest since July.

Gallup: US Party Preference Has Shifted Dramatically to Democrats Since January

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Jon Ponder

Gallup: “Since January, Americans’ party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party’s direction. What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning has become an 11-point Democratic advantage, with more of that movement reflecting a loss in Republican identification and leaning (down eight points) than a gain in Democratic identification and leaning (up five points).”

Majority Support Pot Legalization

October 13, 2016 Buck Banks

57%

According to Gallup: “The share of Americans who favor legalizing the use of marijuana continues to increase. Today, 57% of U.S. adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal. A decade ago, opinion on legalizing marijuana was nearly the reverse – just 32% favored legalization, while 60% were opposed.”

Americans Say Government Is Our Top Problem

March 12, 2015 Buck Banks

Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months, according to Gallup. “Americans’ mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.”

Moving Into Midterms, Congressional Approval at Historic Low

June 16, 2014 Buck Banks

16%

The congressional job approval rate, which “is on pace to be the lowest in a midterm election year since Gallup first measured it in 1974.

Two-Thirds of Americans Dissatisfied with Government

January 22, 2014 Buck Banks

65%

Of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s system of government and how well it works, the highest percentage in Gallup‘s trend since 2001.

Nearly One-Quarter of Americans Don’t Like the Way Things are Going in the U.S.

January 14, 2014 Buck Banks

23%

Of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. at this time, unchanged from December and within one percentage point of the 24% average for 2013, a new http://www.gallup.com/poll/166823/one-four-americans-satisfied-direction.aspx finds.

More Americans are Self-Identifying as ‘Liberal’

January 10, 2014 Buck Banks

38%

Of Americans identify themselves as conservatives, while 23% identify as liberals, according to Gallup. But the conservative advantage is down to 15 percentage points as liberal identification edged up to its highest level since Gallup began regularly measuring ideology in the current format in 1992.

Most Say Biggest Threat Is Big Government

December 18, 2013 Buck Banks

72%

Of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question, according to Gallup.

53%

A new Gallup poll finds that 53% of Americans believe their financial situation is worsening. That figure marks the first time since 2001 that the majority of Gallup’s respondents expressed fears that their finances are not improving.

19%

A new Gallup poll finds 19% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., slightly lower than the 22% to 26% readings in recent months and the lowest since July.

57%

Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months, according to Gallup. “Americans’ mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.”

16%

The congressional job approval rate, which “is on pace to be the lowest in a midterm election year since Gallup first measured it in 1974.

65%

Of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s system of government and how well it works, the highest percentage in Gallup‘s trend since 2001.

23%

Of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S. at this time, unchanged from December and within one percentage point of the 24% average for 2013, a new http://www.gallup.com/poll/166823/one-four-americans-satisfied-direction.aspx finds.

38%

72%

Of Americans say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question, according to Gallup.

Poetic Justice

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— Time magazine

— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), quoted by Politico.

— Jonathan Chait

“This isn’t ‘The Hunger Games’ for immigrants. This is not, ‘Hey, if you lose, we are shipping you out on a boat out of the country.’”

— Television producer Rob Worsoff, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, confirming that he’s working with the Department of Homeland Security on a reality television show.

— Forbes

Numerati

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“The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants,” Politico reports.

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