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The Marketplace-Edison Research Poll is a national survey of Americans ages 18 years and older. A total of 1,016 respondents were interviewed with 501 interviews conducted by telephone and 515...
View ArticleThe Economic Anxiety Index, explained
Marketplace and Edison Research developed the Economic Anxiety Index as a tool to help describe how the economy feels on a personal level. What is it? In its simplest form, the Economic Anxiety Index...
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Who’s feeling the most financial stress?
Hourly workers are more financially stressed than those paid a salary, according to the Economic Anxiety Index, a number calculated from the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll released this week. The...
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Why the economic recovery doesn’t feel like one
By most measures, the American economy is improving. The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.1 percent while initial jobless claims have fallen. Growth in home prices has accelerated. But wages seem to...
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Economic anxiety is keeping people up at night
Marketplace’s Washington Bureau Chief Dave Shaw explains the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll results. On the economic backdrop: This is something that we encounter all the time on Marketplace. We’re...
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How anxious do you feel about your finances?
We released the poll Monday we ran in collaboration with Edison Research. It's a measure of people's economic anxiety and why the recovery doesn't feel like one to many folks. Along with that, we...
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Stuck in place: the American economy
Why are so many American workers feeling stuck? Well, only about half in the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll say they've received a pay raise in the past 12 months. "Pay raises aren’t what they used...
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You told us how your economy is doing
As we roll out the results of our first-ever national economic survey, we also want to hear from you: How's your economy doing? Are you one of the one-fourth of Americans who say they're losing sleep...
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Hourly vs. Salary: A portrait of an American Worker
In this country, most workers fall into one of two categories: hourly or salaried. When we talked to people who'd taken part in the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, we noticed that many hourly...
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A look at economic anxiety around the country
Marketplace rolled out a poll this week with Edison Research about how much anxiety people are feeling about the state of the economy and their finances. We also decided to head out to Cleveland,...
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Why so many people support the social safety net
The people who responded to the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll come from across the country. But I managed to find one in my neck of the woods. Dominick Guzzi owns a hair salon in College Park,...
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What if you lost your job?
The throughline for our election coverage this year, of which the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll is the leading edge, is that the big economic reports are all well and good, but what really matters...
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When the bill for college outweighs the benefit
When Zack Hepner graduated from high school at the age of 17, he didn’t really know what he wanted to do with his life. All he knew was that college was a must. “I just had to go,” he recalled. “It...
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College debt isn't just for the young
When Tanya McAnear opened the door at her small boutique in San Diego’s South Park district on a recent morning, she was greeted by a skull in a wedding veil on display for Halloween. The shop, Bad...
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How anxious people are feeling about student loans
Marketplace rolled out a poll this week with Edison Research about how much anxiety people are feeling about the state of the economy and their finances. People in Miami, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and...
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Even in tough times, Americans remain optimistic
According to the Marketplace-Edison Research poll, Americans are anxious about their finances. More than one in four are losing sleep over it. But, there was another trend as well: optimism. More than...
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Does the American dream still exist?
By a lot of measures, the American economy is improving. But how an economy looks on paper versus how it feels can be two very different stories. All this week, we've been covering the...
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The disconnect between Obama's speech and how we feel
President Obama spent about 11 minutes discussing the economy in Tuesday night's State of the Union address and he did not shy away from celebrating the job growth and economic recovery that has...
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The economy's improving, but Americans' economic anxiety persists
By most macroeconomic indicators, the American economy has gotten stronger in the last few months. Job growth has averaged more than 250,000 a month since the fall, and in December the Federal Reserve...
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