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"title": "Job Situation Remains Top Economic Worry"
"description": "When asked which economic issue worries them most, 43% of Americans cite the job situation compared to 22% who say it is the federal budget deficit."
"date": "2011-09-28"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Russell Heimlich"
    "job_title": "Former web developer"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/short-reads/2011/09/28/job-situation-remains-top-economic-worry/"
---

# Job Situation Remains Top Economic Worry

When asked which economic issue worries them most, nearly twice as many Americans cite the job situation as do the federal budget deficit (43% to 22%), according to a survey conducted Sept. 1-4 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Just under one-in-five (17%) say they are most worried about rising prices and 11% say their chief concern is the financial and housing markets. When the question was asked in July, concerns about jobs topped the budget deficit by a smaller margin — 39% to 29%. Since then, more Democrats cite the job situation as the economic issue that most worries them (55% today, 43% in July), while the percentage of Democrats citing the budget deficit has fallen (from 24% then to 12% today).[Read More](https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/2011/09/07/few-see-job-proposals-having-much-effect/?src=prc-number)