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by THE AMERICAN last modified Tuesday, March 4, 2008

How would you describe your financial situation?

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With recession fears looming, personal economic anxiety is inching up. In a recent Los Angeles Times/ Bloomberg poll, 31 percent of Americans described their financial situation as fairly or very shaky, up from 28 percent who gave that response in January 2007. In a different survey, 34 percent of Americans told Gallup that they had been "worried about money yesterday," with 10 percent saying they had been "very worried." Eight percent of people said they had been worried about losing their job. Source: The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg, latest that of January 2008.

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