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Polls: Americans Remain Worried About Job Loss


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6269927-503544.html




(CBS)

According to many economists, the country is officially out of the recession
- but that has yet to allay many Americans' anxiety about unemployment. 

Unemployment
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/05/business/main6269705.shtml>  Rate
Holds at 9.7%

In a CBS News/New York Times Poll conducted in February, more than half of
Americans said they were concerned that someone in their household might
lose a job in the next year, including 31 percent who were "very" concerned
about this prospect.

The impact of the current economic problems is reflected in the polling
data. Since the fall of 2008, the percentage that has been very concerned
about a job loss in their household has hovered between about three and four
in 10 Americans. Prior to that, it was closer to two in ten. The CBS News
Poll has been asking this question since 1996; the highest measure of
concern occurred in February and April of 2009, when 44 percent said they
were very concerned.

Even when official unemployment figures are comparatively low, as in 2005
and 2006, some Americans remain concerned about a job loss. But in those
years the percentage that was "not worried at all" about unemployment was
much higher - more than half were not concerned. Now, just four in 10 aren't
concerned - and a few months ago that figure was as low as a third.



(CBS)



While anxiety about a job loss affects Americans of all ages, incomes and
education levels, some groups have been hit especially hard. Those with
lower incomes are most likely to be worried - 43 percent of them are very
concerned someone in their household will lose a job. 

Younger people - 40 percent of those under age 30 -- have also been more
widely affected by job insecurity. Those with less education and residents
of the Northeast and the West express relatively higher levels of concern as
well.

?VERY CONCERNED ABOUT JOB LOSS IN HOUSEHOLD


Men

29%


Women

33%


Age 18-29

40%


30-44

29%


45-64

34%


65+

17%


Less than college grad 

33%


College grad or higher 

24%


Under $50k income

43%


$50k or more

21%


Northeast

35%


Midwest

28%


South

27%


West

36%

(CBS News/New York Times Poll, February 2010)

Jobs and the economy have been cited as the top problem - by a large margin
-- facing the country since January 2008, when it surpassed the war in Iraq.
In the most recent CBS News/New York Times Poll, 52 percent of Americans
named it as the most important problem. The next highest was health care at
only 13 percent.

And only 17 percent of Americans think the country's economy is in good
shape now, while 83 percent think it's bad.

More <http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/opinion/polls/main500160.shtml>
Recent CBS News Polls and Analysis
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News Poll Database

 

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