42% Know Someone Who Has Given Up Looking for a Job
Sunday, May 04, 2014
Americans are slightly more optimistic about the job market than they were two months ago.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 69% of American Adults know someone who is out of work and looking for a job. That’s down four points from March and is the lowest finding measured since September.From 2010 through early last year, this figure regularly ran in the mid- to high 70s. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on April 30-May 1, 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.