Recessions & Recoveries

Overview For the public, the continuing financial crisis has been overtaken by a jobs crisis. The proportion of Americans citing jobs or unemployment as the nation’s most important economic problem has more than quadrupled – from 10% to 42% – since early October and job worries now far surpass concerns over the financial crisis. People’s […]

The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics.

Almost one-in-ten (9%) Latino homeowners say they missed a mortgage payment or were unable to make a full payment and 3% say they received a foreclosure notice in the past year.

A small but significant decline has occurred during the current recession in the share of Latino immigrants active in the U.S. labor force.

Despite the imploding stock market, the looming recession, the unpopular president and the dismal political polls, there's very good news in the one realm of life that’s always been a special sanctuary for Republicans. Personal happiness.

Overview Americans are concerned about the nation’s economic problems almost to the exclusion of every other issue, and they register the lowest level of national satisfaction ever measured in a Pew Research Center survey. Just 11% say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country – down 14 points in the […]

World Already Saw U.S. Influence as Negative

The relative stability in the overall numbers obscures considerable movement in public opinion about the package recently passed by Congress.

The current economic slowdown has taken a far greater toll on non-citizen immigrants than it has on the United States population as a whole.

Members who voted against the original House bill are said to be responding to strong opposition to the rescue plan from their constituents, but that’s not what most Americans are saying.