{"id":127552,"date":"2024-03-11T17:05:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127552"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:08:08","slug":"bloomberg-americans-financial-insecurity-is-at-a-record-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127552","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Americans\u2019 Financial Insecurity Is at a Record, Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Feelings of financial insecurity among Americans have reached their highest point in at least a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A third of American adults in Northwestern Mutual\u2019s 2024 Planning &amp; Progress\u00a0<a class=\"Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" href=\"https:\/\/news.northwesternmutual.com\/2024-03-11-Feelings-of-Financial-Insecurity-in-America-Soar-to-Record-High,-Even-as-Consumer-Anxiety-About-the-Economy-and-Recession-Recede\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\">survey<\/a>\u00a0said they don\u2019t feel financially secure. That\u2019s up from 27% in 2023 and the highest measure going back to 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0- paywall\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cDespite the growing economy, Americans have had to endure one financial disruption after another over the last several years, and it\u2019s hard to feel positive when you don\u2019t know what\u2019s around the corner,\u201d said Christian Mitchell, the company\u2019s chief customer officer, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-11\/us-financial-insecurity-at-a-record-as-higher-cost-of-living-makes-saving-hard\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feeling financially insecure is becoming way too common an emotion\/a reality. After so many fin&#39;l twists and turns since Covid, stability doesn&#39;t sound boring, it sounds like a luxury.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/52Hk65ETV1\">https:\/\/t.co\/52Hk65ETV1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Suzanne Woolley (@WealthWatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WealthWatch\/status\/1767282147428008115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feelings of financial insecurity among Americans have reached their highest point in at least a decade. A third of American adults in Northwestern Mutual\u2019s 2024 Planning &amp; Progress\u00a0survey\u00a0said they don\u2019t feel financially secure. That\u2019s up from 27% in 2023 and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=127552\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,209,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127556,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127552\/revisions\/127556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}