Opinion Today
December 4, 2025
Economic Confidence Slips; Holiday Spending Plans Plummet Lydia Saad, Gallup Consumer attitudes about the job market and overall economy slipped in November to their worst levels in over a year, seemingly chilling their gift-buying mood. Though now over, the protracted government shutdown, which delayed pay for federal workers and disrupted key benefit programs, likely contributed to the dampened mood.
How Americans Are Feeling Inflation in 2025 Dante Chinni, American Communities Project Judging by the 2025 American Communities Project survey, it may be a tough holiday season across the United States, but particularly in communities with larger Black and Hispanic populations as well as some rural blue-collar communities.
Americans are following the news less closely than they used to Naomi Forman-Katz, Pew Research Center The share of Americans who say they follow the news all or most of the time has decreased since 2016, according to nearly a decade’s worth of Pew Research Center surveys. This shift comes amid changes in the platforms people use for news and declining trust in news organizations.
Young Adults and the Future of News Naomi Forman-Katz, Michael Lipka, Katerina Eva Matsa, Kaitlyn Radde, Chris Baronavski and Justine Coleman, Pew Research Center This essay examines how the youngest group of adults – those ages 18 to 29 – consume news, interact with it and perceive its role in their daily lives. In doing so, it paints a picture of a generation of Americans that is both shaping and being shaped by the evolving news environment.
Americans More Likely to Accept Guidance from AMA than CDC on Vaccine Safety Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania • By a 2-1 margin, the public would be more likely to accept the AMA’s recommendation (35%) on vaccine safety than the CDC’s (16%) if the two bodies issue conflicting recommendations; • Regardless of party, Americans would accept the AMA’s recommendations on vaccine safety over the CDC’s; • Half of older Americans age 65+ (50%) would be more likely to accept the AMA’s recommendations on vaccine safety over the CDC’s (13%); the only age group more likely to accept the CDC over the AMA are 18- to 29-year-olds, by 24% to 19%.
Nearly three in four Americans oppose cuts to federal jobs, programs focused on mental health National Alliance on Mental Illness and Ipsos Americans remain largely supportive of federal funding for mental health services and suicide prevention programs, according to a new study from the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Ipsos. At the same time, nearly three in four U.S. adults oppose cutting federal jobs and programs focused on mental health services, opioid treatment, and suicide prevention programs, with half (49%) strongly opposing these cuts.
