Economic Fairness
More Now View the Economy as Unfair, Especially to Minorities
Voters increasingly see the U.S. economy as being unfair, and think it is especially unfair to blacks and Hispanics.
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that only seven percent (7%) of Likely U.S. voters believe the economy is Very Fair, generally speaking. Another 26% think the economy is Somewhat Fair. Twenty-nine percent (29%) say the economy is Not Very Fair and 31% view the economy as Not At All Fair. Those findings reflect a sharp shift since 2019, when 56% of voters felt the economy was at least somewhat fair, and only 15% thought it was Not At All Fair. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on January 12-13, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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