By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
WASHINGTON (AP) - As the economy continues to struggle, the public is growing increasingly concerned about losing jobs, not having enough money to pay the bills and seeing their retirement accounts shrink, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
47% worry at least somewhat about losing a job, up from 28% in Feb 2008.
71% say they know someone who has lost a job in the past six months because of the economy.
Fear of being thrown out of work is so widespread that equal percentages of higher- and lower-income workers, 47%, worry about losing their jobs. Last year, only 20% of those earning $50,000 or more annually worried about joblessness, as did 35% of those earning less than that.
65% are at least somewhat worried about paying their bills, up from 46% last year.
69% worry that the value of their stocks and retirement investments will drop, up from 59% a year ago.
53% aren't confident they'll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up from 34% in February 2005.
52% supported the stimulus plan, compared with 55% last month.
Obama's approval rating was at 67%, a slight dip from the 74% he received before his Jan. 20 inauguration.
31% approved of Congress' job performance, up seven points from December.
62% think Obama is making about the right amount of effort to cooperate with Republicans in Congress on solving the country's economic problems.
64% think the GOP isn't doing enough to cooperate with the Democratic president.
47% say the $700 billion bailout had no real effect on the economy and
32% say it actually made things worse
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090219/D96EID300.html
View all the poll results: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP_GfK_Poll_Feb_09_Topline.pdf
Other polls by this company: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/
WASHINGTON (AP) - As the economy continues to struggle, the public is growing increasingly concerned about losing jobs, not having enough money to pay the bills and seeing their retirement accounts shrink, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
47% worry at least somewhat about losing a job, up from 28% in Feb 2008.
71% say they know someone who has lost a job in the past six months because of the economy.
Fear of being thrown out of work is so widespread that equal percentages of higher- and lower-income workers, 47%, worry about losing their jobs. Last year, only 20% of those earning $50,000 or more annually worried about joblessness, as did 35% of those earning less than that.
65% are at least somewhat worried about paying their bills, up from 46% last year.
69% worry that the value of their stocks and retirement investments will drop, up from 59% a year ago.
53% aren't confident they'll have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up from 34% in February 2005.
52% supported the stimulus plan, compared with 55% last month.
Obama's approval rating was at 67%, a slight dip from the 74% he received before his Jan. 20 inauguration.
31% approved of Congress' job performance, up seven points from December.
62% think Obama is making about the right amount of effort to cooperate with Republicans in Congress on solving the country's economic problems.
64% think the GOP isn't doing enough to cooperate with the Democratic president.
47% say the $700 billion bailout had no real effect on the economy and
32% say it actually made things worse
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090219/D96EID300.html
View all the poll results: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/pdf/AP_GfK_Poll_Feb_09_Topline.pdf
Other polls by this company: http://www.ap-gfkpoll.com/