Poll: Are Your Finances Better or Worse Than a Year Ago

Nearly half of U.S. adults say they are worse off financially today than a year ago, according to a recent Gallup poll. 

From Gallup: 

The percentage rating their current finances negatively compared with a year ago is down from the high of 55 percent recorded twice in 2008, but is still among the highest in Gallup's four decades of measuring this attitude.

The same Jan. 5-8, 2012, Gallup poll finds the majority of Americans feeling optimistic about the direction of their finances, with 56 percent saying they expect to be financially better off a year from now.

The report said current attitudes were in line with the mood in 1992 and 1980, two years where incumbent presidential nominees were defeated and ousted from office.

"With barely 3 in 10 saying their finances are better, this is among the worst evaluations Americans have given of their finances since Gallup began measuring this in 1976," the report said. "At the same time, the slight majority of Americans are optimistic about where their finances will be a year from now—a finding that, by comparison with their ratings of current conditions, is relatively favorable."

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