{"id":16924,"date":"2023-08-18T03:57:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2023-08-18T03:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:57:27","slug":"yellen-boasts-most-americans-happy-with-personal-finances-but-polling-shows-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16924","title":{"rendered":"Yellen boasts \u2018most Americans\u2019 happy with personal finances, but polling shows otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeared on CNN where she responded to poor economic approval ratings, saying Americans are nonetheless optimistic on a personal level.<br>\u201cWhat do you say, Secretary Yellen, to the clear majority of Americans who simply do not believe that the administration is helping them?\u201d asked CNN host Erin Burnett.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Yellen replied that \u201cit is important to recognize that when they\u2019re asked how are they personally doing, over 70% of Americans say that they\u2019re very comfortable with their financial situation. So, they seem to perceive the economy as a whole as doing less well than they are personally.\u201d<br>\u201cBut most Americans feel good about their own economic situation,\u201d she concluded.<br>The&nbsp;poll\u2002in discussion was commissioned by CNN and as of the end of July 2023, 75% of the nation feels the economy overall is in \u201cpoor\u201d shape.<br>Also on Monday, US gasoline prices reached an almost 10-month higher of $3.85 per gallon, according to&nbsp;AAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/energy\/treasury-sec-yellen-says-most-americans-happy-finances-same-day-gas-prices\">justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeared on CNN where she responded to poor economic approval ratings, saying Americans are nonetheless optimistic on a personal level.\u201cWhat do you say, Secretary Yellen, to the clear majority of Americans who simply do not believe that the administration is helping them?\u201d asked CNN host Erin Burnett.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yellen replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1199,21785,21786,3004,6056],"class_list":["post-16924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-americans","tag-boasting","tag-personal-finances","tag-polls","tag-yellen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16927,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions\/16927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}