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Article: Economic Anxiety is Soaring to Unprecedented Levels, According to Yankelovich
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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To: BUSINESS EDITORS
Contact: Bonnie Burke of Yankelovich, Inc., +1-919-932-8630,
bburke@yankelovich.com
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Economic anxiety is not
just rising, it is sprinting its way to new heights, with 61 percent
of consumers saying they feel high or severe levels of anxiety,
according to the most recent Yankelovich study fielded in June 2008.
The latest Yankelovich tracking of economic worries finds that 37
percent of consumers feel severe economic anxiety, a number that has
nearly tripled in only six months. In the first wave of tracking in
January 2008, only 14 percent of consumers felt severe economic