Pew finds Americans in a gloomy mood over economy, healthcare
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The public mood is, in a word, sour. ‘As the day of reckoning for healthcare reform approaches, Americans have little to cheer about,’’ the Pew Research Center is reporting today of its newest findings. ‘Nearly everyone (92%) gives the national economy a negative rating,’ Pew reports.
Closer to home, 85 percent say that jobs are hard to find in their community. A majority (54 percent) now says that someone in their household has been without a job or looking for work in the past year, compared with 39 percent in February 2009. And the proportion saying they got a pay raise or a better job in the past year fell from 41 percent in January 2008 to 24 percent currently.
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-- Mark Silva