Stress up 10 points from last year. Those who consider themselves middle class falls to 2 year low.
8/6/11, "67% Say Economy Causing Family Stress," Rasmussen Reports
"It's perhaps no surprise to find that a majority of Americans say the economy is adding stress to their family.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of American Adults say the state of the economy is causing more stress on their family. That finding is up 10 points from this time last year . Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the economy isn’t causing their family more stress. (To see survey question wording, click here .)...
Still, 43% of adults say they have gotten into an intense argument with a friend or family member about economic conditions in the country. That's up six points from 37% last year....
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on July 31-August 1, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC . See methodology .
Most Americans (68%) say their fellow citizens are less tolerant of each other’s political opinions than they were in the past, while just 16% say they’re more tolerant. Another 12% feel Americans’ level of tolerance is about the same as it was in the past. These results show little change from August 2010. ...
Higher-income adults are experiencing less family stress than those who make less. Non-investors claim more family stress than investors do.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of adults with children at home say economic conditions in the nation are adding stress to their family, compared to 64% of adults without children living with them.
Adults under the age of 30 report more stress than their elders do.
More Americans than ever (76%) say their fellow citizens are becoming ruder and less civilized . That’s up from 69% this time last year....
The belief among Americans that purchasing a home is a family’s best investment is weaker than ever.
One-in-five working Americans continue to classify themselves as poor , while the number of those who consider themselves
- middle class has fallen to a two-year low."...
4/1/2010, "The Obama Coalition," The Atlantic, Thomas Byrne Edsall
"While both the “have” and “have-not” coalitions have been growing, with the middle (class) waning,"...
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Even the NY Times knows this is about the death of the middle class:
2/20/10. "The New Poor: Despite Signs of Recovery, Chronic Joblessness Rises," NY Times, Peter S. Goodman
"Call them the new poor: people long accustomed to the comforts of middle-class life who are now relying on public assistance for the first time in their lives — potentially for years to come."...
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