{"id":51176,"date":"2015-08-12T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_many_more_americans_say_economy_getting_worse_rather_than_better\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T01:45:17","slug":"gallup_many_more_americans_say_economy_getting_worse_rather_than_better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51176","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Many more Americans say economy getting worse rather than better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: how Americans rate the current economy and whether they feel the economy is &#8220;getting better&#8221; or &#8220;getting worse.&#8221; The index&#8217;s theoretical maximum is +100, if all Americans rated the economy as positive and improving, while the theoretical minimum is -100, if all Americans rated the economy as negative and getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>Both components were level for the week ending Aug. 9. The current conditions component averaged -6, the result of 24% of Americans rating the economy as &#8220;excellent&#8221; or &#8220;good,&#8221; while 30% rated it &#8220;poor.&#8221; The economic outlook component averaged -18, as 39% of Americans said the economy is getting better while 57% said it is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/184550\/economic-confidence-index-remains-lower.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gallup&#8217;s Economic Confidence Index is the average of two components: how Americans rate the current economy and whether they feel the economy is &#8220;getting better&#8221; or &#8220;getting worse.&#8221; The index&#8217;s theoretical maximum is +100, if all Americans rated the economy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51176\">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":[39,40,50,209,175,582,589,149,600,597,593,129,109,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","category-sociology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176","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=51176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}