Americans Are More Optimistic About Job Market
Americans are a bit more optimistic about the current job picture and future job prospects.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 30% of American Adults think that the current job market is better than it was one year ago. This is up five points from July and is the highest level of optimism in over a year. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say it’s worse now, the lowest finding since January. Forty percent (40%) feel the job market is about the same as it was a year ago. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on September 2-3, 2014 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.