* Seventy-eight percent of 18-34-year-olds have some sort of debt, including 36 percent with credit-card debt. (AARP)
* Among Californians, 54 percent agree that the state’s current woes “are part of a long-term decline that’s not going to turn around just because the national economy gets better”; 44 percent think instead that “things in California will return to normal” once the U.S. economy recovers. (UCLA/Los Angeles Times)
*If an emergency meant they had to come up with $2,000 in the next month, fewer than half of a poll’s U.S. respondents-46 percent-say they’re confident they’d be able to raise it. (TNS)
* Seventy-one percent support (including 58 percent “strongly”) federal limits on compensation for top executives of companies that got emergency loans from the federal government during the past year. (ABC News/Washington Post)
* Asked to say which of several buzzwords or catchphrases they would most like to see abandoned, respondents gave a plurality of the vote to “get ‘er done” (25 percent). Closely grouped were “green” (17 percent), “too big to fail” (16 percent) and “staycation” (15 percent). “A perfect storm” (12 percent) raised slightly fewer hackles. (Vanity Fair/60 Minutes)
* Twenty-six percent say at least one family member lost healthcare coverage in the past year. Even in the $100,00-plus income bracket, 19 percent reported such a loss of coverage. (Zogby Interactive)
