Nearly 100 percent of Americans have been affected by soaring inflation, according to a new poll from The Economist/YouGov.
The survey of 1,500 U.S. adult citizens age 18 and over was conducted between Aug. 7 and Aug. 9, 2022, and has a margin error of +/- 2.9 percent (adjusted for weighting), +/- 3 percent (registered voters).
Respondents were asked; “How much have you felt the impact of this high inflation in your own life?” to which 95 percent said it has affected them at least “a little” or “a lot—of which 56 percent said inflation has impacted them “a lot.”
Of the respondents who answered that inflation has impacted them “a lot,” an overwhelming 65 percent were aged 45–64, while 62 percent were individuals earning less than $50,000 a year….