Not Everyone Is Hurting

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Conventional wisdom depicts the economic downturn as having wrought financial havoc on nearly everybody. The Economist/ YouGov polling offers a useful corrective to that picture. While 50 percent of respondents do feel they’re worse off financially than a year ago, nearly as many rate their current finances either as better (8 percent) or as about the same (39 percent, with the rest unsure).

Still, the poll (conducted at the very end of January and beginning of February) also found damage cutting across all its income groups.

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