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Inflation And The Economy Consistently Rank As Top Issues Among Likely

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inflation and the economy consistently rank as top issues among likely

Ahead of the 2024 election, voters are consistently indicating that the economy is one of their top issues. However, we have found that surveys may actually be underreporting the specific importance of inflation for voters this year. Moving forward, Data for Progress is using a new way to track issue importance, honing in on specific factors motivating respondents to select different issue areas as important to their vote. Findings From Previous Issue Importance Questions From July 2023 to February 2024, Data for Progress tracked likely voters’ most pressing concerns with the question: “Of the choices listed below, which do you think are the top three most important issues... Specifically, the choice labeled “jobs and the economy” has maintained a consistent level of importance, hovering around 30%.

Inflation, which held the top spot for the majority of the time, fluctuated to 32% in July from a high of 40% in October. Notably, while inflation and economic matters have remained steady as top priorities, immigration saw a notable uptick in importance among voters beginning in mid-2023. In October, immigration surpassed “jobs and the economy,” and continued to rank as the second-most important issue through the end of the year, largely driven by respondents who identified as Republican or lean Republican. The significance of immigration continued to rise, ultimately becoming the primary focus for voters in the latter half of January 2024. However, if “jobs and the economy” and inflation were combined into one category, that category would consistently be the top issue. A New Way of Asking About Issue Importance

As concerns around the state of the economy and inflation continue, about eight-in-ten registered voters (81%) say the economy will be very important to their vote in the 2024 presidential election. While the economy is the top issue among voters, a large majority (69%) cite at least five of the 10 issues asked about in the survey as very important to their vote. There are wide differences between voters who support Harris and Trump when it comes to the issues. Among Trump supporters, the economy (93%), immigration (82%) and violent crime (76%) are the leading issues. Just 18% of Trump supporters say racial and ethnic inequality is very important. And even fewer say climate change is very important (11%).

For Harris supporters, issues such as health care (76%) and Supreme Court appointments (73%) are of top importance. Large majorities also cite the economy (68%) and abortion (67%) as very important to their vote in the election. Americans' concern about maintaining their standard of living remains elevated WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly three in 10 Americans, 29%, say inflation or the high cost of living is the most important financial problem facing their family today, down from 41% last year and 35% in 2023. Still, today’s reading far exceeds the levels measured before inflation began to spike in 2021, and is large enough to earn the top spot on Gallup’s annual measure of consumers’ financial stressors, as it...

Gallup’s April 1-14 Economy and Personal Finance survey finds that housing costs and lack of money are the next-most-commonly mentioned financial challenges after inflation, each named by 12% of U.S. adults. Healthcare costs (7%), stock investments (6%), taxes (5%) and debt (5%) are each named by at least 5% of Americans in response to the open-ended question. Though inflation remains the top issue by a wide margin, the 12-percentage-point drop in mentions of it is the biggest change since last year. There have also been five-point increases in the percentages mentioning stock investments and lack of money. This Navigator Research report contains polling data on what Americans view as the top issues facing the country, perceptions of which party is most trusted to handle those issues, and the latest perceptions of...

49 percent of Americans report inflation as a top issue priority, followed by 43 percent of Americans who say the same about jobs and the economy. Similarly, a majority of Americans who are unfavorable toward both Donald Trump and Joe Biden report that their top issue priority is inflation (55 percent). Nearly two in five Americans rate immigration (38 percent) as the third top issue concern behind inflation and jobs and the economy, but this is driven overwhelmingly by Republicans (59 percent): fewer than three... Democrats rank health care (40 percent), guns (37 percent), climate change and the environment (34 percent), Social Security and Medicare (32 percent), and abortion (29 percent) above immigration; among independents, Social Security and Medicare... Americans trust President Biden and Democrats more to handle issues surrounding health care, abortion, and Social Security and Medicare, but continue to trust Republicans more on the economy and immigration. Biden and Democrats garner more trust from Americans on the issue of healthcare by 12 points (49 percent trust Biden and Democrats – 37 percent trust Republicans) and Social Security and Medicare by 8...

A majority of Americans say the descriptors “protects our democracy” (56 percent) and “looks out for people like me” (53 percent) better describe Biden than Donald Trump. Two in three Americans say Donald Trump “protects the rich and big corporations” (65 percent), including nearly seven in ten independents (69 percent) and over three in four who are unfavorable to both Biden... However, by 10 points, a majority think “will bring costs down” describes Trump (55 percent) better than Biden (45 percent). Focus group report on working class Americans in Senate battleground states on their personal financial situations, their greatest economic concerns, and perceptions of elected officials tackling affordability. Sunrise at the U.S. Capitol on Dec.

19, 2022. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption Sunrise at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 19, 2022. The economy continues to dominate as the most important issue facing the country, followed by preserving democracy, according to the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Democrats face vulnerabilities when it comes to the economy, crime and whether to ban TikTok, while Republicans risk overstepping on transgender rights and business practices, the survey found. "The image of the Republican Party has gotten even more extreme than it was" before the 2020 election, said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the survey. "If winning the election in 2024 is predicated on picking up some swing voters in the middle, they're moving in the opposite direction. FILE-People shop in the food section of a retail store in Rosemead, California. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Inflation is a primary financial concern for Americans based on responses in a new Gallup poll. The global analytics and research company reported that 29% of respondents said inflation and the high cost of living is an issue for them now. RELATED: Inflation remained elevated in February, data shows Researchers gathered results for the poll from telephone interviews conducted from April 1-14, 2025, with 1,006 adults 18 years old and older living in the U.S. The Public’s Views on the Most Important Issues Facing the Country Today A new SSRS Opinion Panel Omnibus poll asked the public to choose which of 13 issues they believed was the most important issue facing the country today.

Then they were asked to choose a second and a third most important issue. The single most important issue among the public is inflation and the cost of living, cited by 34% as the most important issue facing the country. Looking at the top three issues named by the public combined, inflation is also the top issue, cited by 63%. The survey was conducted online and by telephone by SSRS, an independent research company, via the probability based SSRS Opinion Panel. Interviews were conducted July 7 – 11, 2023, in English and Spanish among a nationally representative sample of 1,031 adults. The margin of error for total respondents is +/-3.5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Overall, six issues are named by at least one-fourth of the public as one of the three most important issues facing the country: inflation (63%), threats to democracy (31%), gun policies (31%), crime (28%),... (Other issues on the list of 13 from which to choose were climate change/the environment, national security, inequality, taxes, abortion, health care other than COVID-19, and COVID-19). Republicans and Democrats differ widely in their views about which issues are the most important. Among Republicans, inflation/cost of living is the top issue (cited by 67% as one of the top three issues), followed by immigration (50%), crime (32%), threats to democracy (31%), and jobs and the economy,... Josh Boak, Associated Press Josh Boak, Associated Press Linley Sanders, Associated Press Linley Sanders, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters said the economy and immigration are the top issues facing the country, but the future of democracy was also a leading motivator for many Americans casting a ballot in Tuesday’s... INTERACTIVE MAP: Create your own projections for the 2024 presidential race, based on race ratings from Cook Political Report AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide, found a country mired in negativity and desperate for change as Americans faced a stark choice between former President Donald Trump and Vice...

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