(The Center Square) – Nearly half of Americans report that the recent spike in inflation is making it harder to make ends meet, according to a new poll.
Monmouth University released a poll Wednesday showing 46% of Americans are “currently struggling to remain where they are financially.”
That figure is the highest point recorded by this pollster since President Joe Biden took office and far higher than during his predecessor’s term.
“In polls conducted between 2022 and 2023, this number ranged between 37% and 44%,” Monmouth said in its report. “In prior polls from 2017 to 2021, this sentiment was much lower at 20% to 29%.”
Prices have risen about 20% since Biden took office, a huge increase across all kinds of goods and services. Now, inflation is rising much slowly than the breakneck pace earlier in Biden’s term.
“Even with a declining inflation rate, prices continue to be much higher than they were four years ago,” Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in the report. “That’s the metric that has really mattered to many Americans over the past two years. Economic concerns may not be the top motivating factor for all voters but it defines the contours of this year’s election.”
However, prices continue to rise faster than economists would like. Inflation slowed last month, a reprieve after months of elevated inflation. Whether that slowing is a blip on the radar or a turning point remains to be seen.
For now, Biden has to grapple with the major price increase during his term this election cycle.
The polling does show an equal percentage of Americans think either Biden or Trump cares about their economic woes.
“The overwhelming narrative is that a large segment of the American public feels it is financially behind the eight ball,” Murray said. “It is true that voters who feel more comfortable with their economic situation are likely to support Biden. But despite continued Democratic efforts to tout rosy economic indicators, the tactic of telling financially pessimistic voters they should feel differently does not appear to be working.”
The poll surveyed 1,106 adults from June 1 to June 6.
despite continued Democratic efforts to tout rosy economic indicators, the tactic of telling financially pessimistic voters they should feel differently does not appear to be working.”
In other words LYING to the American people.
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this treasonous, treasonous, dishonest, unethical Democrat Party cabal and their dishonorable supporters know no bounds. The Democrat Party and its supporters will do or say Anything to be able to dictate control over the U.S. and we the people.
Figures are the highest point recorded by this pollster since the treasonous, corrupt, demented, puppet President Joe OBiden took office and far higher than during his predecessor Donald Trump’s term.
This is directly due to the Democrat Party’s over spending and recklessly giving taxpayers money away. The puppet president Biden and his administration’s war on oil, the destruction of the U.S. being energy independent. When Biden decreased the amount of energy the U.S. produced it increased the price of fuel and the cost of EVERYTHING.
Can anyone name one thing that this treasonous, corrupt, lying, demented, sock puppet president Joe Biden or his administration that has been beneficial to our U.S. citizens OR our country???
There is a very long list of treasonous, destructive, detrimental actions, policies and agendas that this treasonous, corrupt, lying, demented, sock puppet president Joe Biden and his administration has deliberately done!
Let me think..
Inflation is the most hideous of human taxation WITHOUT any legal representation, brought on by politicians too timid to tell THE PEOPLE the truth that Socialism (Which is the taking from the successful productive to give to the failed and unproductive of society) never works when you run out of those other people’s life force and money. Too frightened to raise the taxes that reveal the unsustainable unworkable mindless social programs that turn WE THE PEOPLE into Socially depend upon THEM…..they just print more money to cover the expenses of their crimes and mal-administrations and THE PEOPLE pay the taxes anyway in the form of inflated higher prices brought on my more devalued dollars available to pursue the same finite amount of goods and services. The real crime is that un-elected so-called government experts are mostly in charge of the money supply and can be bought or sold as cheaply as they make our degraded currency.
Never believe their lying mouths for lying is their native tongue. Believe only the pain they make you feel when the promises are broken, and your money and retirement fade away and are gone with the winds of their breathless inane political elocutions.
average tax paying law abiding CITIZENS ARE SUFFERING !
the illegals and the welfare dole are not!
TILL WE as a nation get some PROPER REPRESENTATION In congress, the welfare leeches and illegals will NEVER suffer.