Financial-Anxiety Gender Gap

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While the standard “misery index” numbers — combining unemployment and inflation rates — have been poor in recent months, they haven’t been catastrophic. But those indices don’t capture the economic anxiety Americans feel. An ABC News/Washington Post survey last month took a more direct look at that phenomenon.

Just 21 percent of respondents said they feel “very secure” financially, though this topped the number saying they feel “very insecure” (15 percent). The number feeling “somewhat secure” was double the number feeling “somewhat insecure” (42 percent to 21 percent).

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