More than 8 in 10 Americans believe U.S. economy poor: poll


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Wednesday, 08 Jun 2022

NEW YORK, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Roughly 83 percent of respondents said the state of the U.S. economy was poor or not so good, according to a new poll from The Wall Street Journal and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

"That's the highest dissatisfaction level since NORC, one of the largest independent research organizations in the U.S., began conducting the poll in 1972," said U.S. business magazine Fortune in its report of the survey.

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