{"id":45495,"date":"2014-08-06T15:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/latest_wsj_nbc_poll_finds_widespread_economic_anxiety_among_americans\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:45:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:45:12","slug":"latest_wsj_nbc_poll_finds_widespread_economic_anxiety_among_americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45495","title":{"rendered":"Latest WSJ\/NBC Poll Finds Widespread Economic Anxiety among Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still scarred by a recession that ended five years ago, Americans are registering record levels of anxiety about the opportunities available to younger generations and are pessimistic about the nation&#8217;s long-term prospects, directing their blame at elected leaders in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>A new Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll found that despite the steady pace of hiring in recent months, 76% of adults lack confidence that their children&#8217;s generation will have a better life than they do\u201d\u201dan all-time high. Some 71% of adults think the country is on the wrong track, a leap of 8 points from a June survey, and 60% believe the U.S. is in a state of decline.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, seven in 10 adults blamed the malaise more on Washington leaders than on any deeper economic trends, and 79% expressed some level of dissatisfaction with the American political system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/wsj-nbc-poll-finds-widespread-economic-anxiety-1407277801\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still scarred by a recession that ended five years ago, Americans are registering record levels of anxiety about the opportunities available to younger generations and are pessimistic about the nation&#8217;s long-term prospects, directing their blame at elected leaders in Washington.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45495\">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":[39,40,50,209,149,168,617,616,151,667,129,618,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495","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=45495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}