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Even as Americans express gloom about the national economy, the saving grace has been a comparatively positive view of their personal financial condition. A Gallup poll finds that even this bright spot has dimmed, though.
Asked whether they’re better off or worse off financially than they were a year ago, 55 percent of adults now say they’re worse off, vs. 26 percent saying they’re better off. As the polling firm says in its analysis of the data, this marks “the first time in Gallup’s 32-year history of asking the question that more than half of Americans give this pessimistic assessment.”
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