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How debt may take a toll on mental health

Jun 5, 2019
Whether student loans or credit-card debt, indebtedness is likely to bring you down.
Debt collectors could be texting you soon.
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Does Big Tech have more influence on the economy than the president?

Oct 17, 2018
Americans seem to think so, according to the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
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How does America feel about the economy in 2018? Look to the Anxiety Index

Oct 17, 2018
People are feeling pretty good, though a majority of respondents fear that a recession is looming.
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African-Americans, women and millennials have more economic anxiety than the rest of the country

Mar 7, 2018
Whether your economic anxiety has increased or decreased in the last year depends on who you are, according to the latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
Pedestrians walk by a building advertising available retail space on Lexington Avenue on February 8, 2018 in New York. 
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Would a Mexican-U.S. border wall help or hurt the economy?

May 1, 2017
In our latest Marketplace-Edison Research Poll, we asked Americans how they felt about President Trump's border wall, and other stances on immigration.
Border Patrol agents patrol the U.S.-Mexico border at Friendship Park in San Ysidro, California, in  April..
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A lot of people are worried about crumbling infrastructure

May 1, 2017
Our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll shows strong support for rebuilding America.
Eighty-three percent of respondents to our Marketplace-Edison Research Poll told us they support the idea of Congress passing a large infrastructure bill to repair roads, bridges and airports.
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Majority of Americans feel 'forgotten' by government

Apr 26, 2017
Poll respondents are cynical about Washington politicians and distrust them.
A person in Detroit walks past the remains of the Packard Motor Car Co., which ceased production in the late 1950s.
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Run government as a business? Americans are split

Apr 25, 2017
Marketplace polling shows views differ by age, gender and party
President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order surrounded by small business leaders in the Oval Office of the White House January 30, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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