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Economic Anxiety Index®

The latest results from our ongoing Marketplace-Edison Research Poll measuring economic anxiety in America.

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Economic Anxiety Index®

Most Americans distrust Wall Street

by Lewis Wallace
Jul 5, 2016
While presidential candidates squabble over Wall Street cash, voters are united.
People walk down Wall Street in New York City.   
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The suburbs aren't immune from economic anxiety

by Kimberly Adams
Jun 30, 2016
Our poll shows people are feeling less stable, despite the overall improvement.
Unity Barber shop is in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland.
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This is what economic anxiety looks like

by Kimberly Adams
Jun 30, 2016
Coffee shop Wi-Fi and selling family heirlooms
Susan Perkins stands in her antiques booth in Prescott, Arizona. It's one of several jobs the 72 year-old has to supplement her income.
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Survey says: Americans feel the economy is rigged

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 29, 2016
Across the board, people who took our latest poll say the economy is "rigged" to favor certain groups.
 An Occupy Wall Street protestor holds up a mock debt note during a demonstration in San Francisco, California. 
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Why Americans feel the economy is rigged

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jun 29, 2016
A majority of respondents to our recent poll said the economy was rigged.
A majority of Americans think the economy is rigged, according to our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
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The U.S. economy is making us anxious and suspicious

by Kai Ryssdal
Jun 28, 2016
Larry Rosin on the results of our latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll
Poll results show that 71 percent of Americans think the American economy is rigged.
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Americans' anxiety around the economy grows

by Andrea Seabrook
Jun 27, 2016
Your financial anxiety heightened as summer approached, according to the most recent Economic Anxiety Index poll results.
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No inheritance? No problem

by Kimberly Adams
Mar 18, 2016
Only 25 percent expect to receive an inheritance, but 51 percent think they will leave one.
Young people have high expectations about receiving an inheritance, according to our new economic anxiety poll.
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The midlife economic anxiety crisis

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 18, 2016
The most anxious people in our economic anxiety poll are 35 to 54-year-olds.
Ira Baron and his wife, Sharon Simon.
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The financial anxiety of living on a fixed income

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 18, 2016
One Alabama resident who had just $10 left over after paying bills shares her story.
Betty Moncrief stands at the grave of her mother.
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