{"id":3419,"date":"2023-01-04T06:24:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:46:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:46:25","slug":"americans-reveal-key-concerns-for-2023-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3419","title":{"rendered":"Americans reveal key concerns for 2023 \u2013 poll<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about their country\u2019s fortunes in 2023, with 80% predicting economic hardship and 90% expecting increased political conflict, a Gallup poll has found. Respondents also see both Russia and the US weakening amid the conflict in Ukraine.
\nPublished on Tuesday, the survey found that 81% of Amercans expect their taxes to increase rather than fall this year, 79% expect a year of\u00a0\u201ceconomic difficulty,\u201d\u00a0and 65% expect prices to keep increasing at a high rate.
\nSome 72% expect crime rates to rise, while 90% say that 2023 will bring more\u00a0\u201cpolitical conflict\u201d\u00a0than\u00a0\u201cpolitical cooperation.\u201d
\nThese trends have already been established in 2022. The year saw inflation rise to a 40-year high, with the Biden administration adding\u00a0trillions of dollars\u00a0in new spending regardless. Biden closed out the year by signing a $1.7 trillion spending bill, which although heavily criticized by Republicans, passed Congress with the support of a handful of top GOP lawmakers.
\nWhile crime rates have not risen nationally, violent offenses rose dramatically in\u00a0some\u00a0cities\u00a0in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
\nThe American foreign policy establishment spent the year heavily focused on Ukraine, with Washignton sending progressively heavier shipments of arms to Kiev and allocating more than $100 billion in economic and military aid to the country since the start of Russia\u2019s military operation last February.
\nOnly 14% of respondents predict\u00a0\u201ca more peaceful year\u201d\u00a0ahead, with 85% anticipating\u00a0\u201ca more troubled year with much international discord.\u201d\u00a064% said that 2023 will be a year in which\u00a0\u201cAmerican power will decline\u201d\u00a0in the world, with an equal number predicting a decline in Russian power.
\nWith the US and Russia locked into the Ukrainian conflict, 73% said that they expect\u00a0\u201cChina will increase its power in the world.\u201d
\nWith their party entering 2023 in control of the White House and one of the two houses of Congress, Democrats are more optimistic about the year ahead than Republicans. More than a third expect economic prosperity, compared to 4% of Republicans, while 47% expect crime rates to subside, compared to 6% of Republicans.<\/p>\n

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Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about their country\u2019s fortunes in 2023, with 80% predicting economic hardship and 90% expecting increased political conflict, a Gallup poll has found. Respondents also see both Russia and the US weakening amid the conflict in Ukraine. Published on Tuesday, the survey found that 81% of Amercans expect their taxes to increase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3491,1199,1167,3492],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-american-foreign-policy","tag-americans","tag-poll","tag-ukraine-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7637,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/7637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}