Gallup: Joblessness now top priority for Americans

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posted at 8:01 am on February 18, 2014 by Ed Morrissey








The Obama administration keeps bragging about the falling topline unemployment rate, but their audience has not been convinced of an improvement. According to Gallup’s latest survey on priorities for Americans, joblessness has now become the top issue — exceeding the economy and even dissatisfaction with Congress and government:


Americans have a new No. 1 problem. Nearly one in four Americans mention jobs and unemployment as the most important problem facing the country, up from 16% in January. The government and politicians had topped the list since the government shutdown in October.

Prior to last fall, either jobs or the economy had led the “most important problem” list going back to February 2008, and these two have regained their top spots in the Feb. 6-9 poll.

Healthcare continues to rank among the top problems, with 15% naming it, unchanged from January. Mentions of the federal debt/budget deficit are stable at 8%, despite Congress’ increasing the debt ceiling in February.
Although Barack Obama often “pivots” to the economy, usually when his approval numbers start to fall, the White House has not sustained any economic policy except that which they implemented at the beginning of the Obama presidency. The stimulus turned five years old yesterday, and unemployment is still at the top of this list, followed by the economy — and combined they account for 43% of the responses. That tells us a lot more about the “success” of the stimulus than the jobless rate, which has become unmoored from its historical track thanks to a sharp decline in the workforce participation rate.

Instead, the White House has spent the last few months talking about “income inequality” and immigration. Those priorities account for 12% of the electorate, if one takes the 3% for both “lack of money” and “poverty” and combine it with the 6% for “immigration/illegal aliens.” Even health care only gets 15%, roughly the same percentage of Americans who were uninsured for any reason in 2009.


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