{"id":129569,"date":"2024-05-31T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129569"},"modified":"2024-05-31T06:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T10:31:23","slug":"gallup-u-s-economic-confidence-dips-for-a-second-month-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129569","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) U.S. Economic Confidence Dips for a Second Month in a Row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twenty-two percent of Americans describe current U.S. economic conditions as \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cgood,\u201d down slightly from the prior month, marking the lowest figure recorded since December\u2019s 22%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since early 2022, Americans have consistently been most likely to describe the economy\u2019s current conditions as \u201cpoor.\u201d The latest measure finds 46% of Americans viewing the economy this way, only slightly higher than the April reading but the highest since November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>The net effect of these changes is that the index\u2019s current conditions component dipped to -24 from -20 in April and is the lowest score for this component since November (-31).<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/645515\/economic-confidence-dips-second-month-row.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GALLUP POLL: Right now, do you think that economic conditions in the country are getting better or getting worse?<br><br>May 2024<br>Getting better: 26% [-7]<br>Getting worse: 70% [+7]<br><br>October 2020<br>Getting better: 42% <br>Getting worse: 53% <br><br>[+\/- change vs March]<br>\u2014<br>% who described the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q8YoBY1L9C\">pic.twitter.com\/q8YoBY1L9C<\/a><\/p>\u2014 InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAPolls2022\/status\/1796485980204999052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two percent of Americans describe current U.S. economic conditions as \u201cexcellent\u201d or \u201cgood,\u201d down slightly from the prior month, marking the lowest figure recorded since December\u2019s 22%. Since early 2022, Americans have consistently been most likely to describe the economy\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129569\">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":[39,40,209,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129569","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=129569"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129580,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129569\/revisions\/129580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}