Hill Poll: Voters expect personal finances will improve, not economy

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http://thehill.com/polls/221567-hill-poll-voters-expect-personal-finances-to-get-better-less-so-economy

Likely voters are fairly confident that their personal financial situation will improve this year, even as 39 percent of them say they are less confident that the economy is improving, according to The Hill Poll.

Just over half of respondents — 52 percent — said they expect their personal finances to improve either a little or a lot over the next year, while 44 percent said they anticipated a downslide.

That faith was expressed even as just 32 percent of likely voters said they were more confident about the economy now than they were at the start of the year. Twenty-eight percent reported they felt about the same amount of confidence.
The poll, conducted on Thursday, came less than a week after the Labor Department reported the economy added only 120,000 jobs in March, the softest employment report of the current year.

[Proud Public Servant]

1. Makes more sense than it seems

The economic downturn led a lot of folks to change there saving/spending habits and reliance on credit, for the better; a lot of them are in better shape now (more savings, less debt) than they were a couple of years ago.

Ironically, those very habits are actually hurting the economy, and with Congress unwilling to fund a proper stimulus (and thus do the spending that private Americans are not doing), the economy will, in fact, not improve as fast as individual Americans' personal financial situations.

[jwirr]

2. Many are doing things that will help in this situation. My family have enlarged the garden, adjusted

our budgets to take in the changes and in some cases simply quit paying on cc that will never get paid anyhow.