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As the recovery from the Great Recession proceeds at an uneven pace<\/a> for many Americans, a Washington Post-Miller Center poll<\/a> taking the public\u2019s pulse on the economy finds a high degree of anxiety among many about being able to get ahead financially, the difficulty of finding good jobs and, for those that are employed, concern about losing them.<\/p>\n\n

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(Credit: Washington Post-Miller Center poll)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n\n

About six-in-ten (62%) of those surveyed said they worried a lot or a little about losing their job because of the economy, with 32% saying they worried a lot. The joint Post-Miller Center poll said this figure surpassed the level of concern<\/a> about losing jobs registered in more than a dozen surveys dating to the 1970s. The poll was conducted in September.<\/p>\n\n

The survey noted that 54% of workers earning $35,000 or less worried a lot about losing their jobs compared to 37% who had that concern in 1992.<\/p>\n\n

About three-quarters (74%) said finding good jobs had become harder.<\/p>\n\n

Nearly half (48%) in the poll said they felt less financially secure as they did a few years ago, compared with 23% who felt more secure and 29% who described their circumstances as about the same.<\/p>\n\n

While more than half (54%) considered their current standard of living to be better than that of their parents at the same age, a smaller number \u201439% \u2014believed their children\u2019s standard of living would be better than theirs at the same age.<\/p>\n\n

The lingering effects of the Great Recession had also been captured in a Pew Research Center poll<\/a> conducted in September. More than half (54%) of those surveyed said their household incomes had hardly recovered and 52% said the same about the job situation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About six-in-ten Americans worry that they will lose their jobs due to the current state of the 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