{"id":1416328,"date":"2022-04-02T18:59:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416328"},"modified":"2022-04-02T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T22:59:55","slug":"poll-nearly-half-of-voters-say-they-are-financially-worse-off-than-one-year-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-nearly-half-of-voters-say-they-are-financially-worse-off-than-one-year-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Nearly Half of Voters Say They Are &#039;Financially Worse&#039; Off than One Year Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoll-nearly-half-of-voters-say-they-are-financially-worse-off-than-one-year-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416328&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Nearly half of U.S. voters say they are \u201cfinancially worse\u201d than they were one year ago, shortly after the end of former President Trump\u2019s four years in office, Harvard\/Harris Poll\u2019s March survey found.<\/p>\n<p>The survey <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/ca678077bc522bd7bd74bacbf\/files\/8268fbf4-a318-713b-ed6e-8c25f5df1f41\/HHP_March2022_FinalEdited.pdf\">asked<\/a> respondents, \u201cWould you say that your personal financial situation is improving or getting worse?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly half, 49 percent, said their financial situation is \u201cgetting worse.\u201d That is over two times higher than the 21 percent of voters who said the same exactly one year ago, in March 2021, less than two months after Trump left office.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>That coincides with the top issue for voters, as \u201cprice increases\/inflation\u201d topped the list of \u201cmost important issues\u201d facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>Voters were asked to select three issues, and the \u201ceconomy and jobs\u201d followed closely behind with 27 percent. Immigration rounded out the top three with 21 percent, followed by the coronavirus (19 percent), health care (18 percent), terrorism\/national security (18 percent), national debt\/federal budget deficits (15 percent), crime and drugs (14 percent), environment\/climate change (14 percent), and corruption (12 percent). The remaining issues saw ten percent support or less.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents were also asked to identify their greatest\/second greatest concern, and once again, inflation topped the list, as 35 percent said it is their \u201cgreatest\u201d concern and 18 percent said it is their second greatest concern.<\/p>\n<p>Further, 76 percent said they have been affected by inflation, up from 67 percent who said the same in January. Of those, over one-third said they have been affected \u201ca lot.\u201d Forty-percent said they feel the impacts of inflation most at the grocery store, while 36 percent said they feel it at the gas pump.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, voters do not have an optimistic outlook on that front, as a plurality, 46 percent, said they expect inflation to \u201cstay high\u201d and 35 percent expect it to \u201cget even higher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey was taken March 23-24, 2022, among 1,990 registered voters and comes as Americans continue to face the highest inflation in roughly four decades and highest case prices since former President Obama\u2019s term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of U.S. voters say they are \u201cfinancially worse\u201d than they were one year ago, shortly after the end of former President Trump\u2019s four years in office, Harvard\/Harris Poll\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}