An even larger share \u0096 67% — said they feared that family members or friends might lose their jobs. And 58% said they were personally concerned about being able to afford housing.<\/p>\n
Those college students surveyed also said they were worried about being able to stay in school. Of the young adults that were enrolled in four-year colleges, 45% said they were concerned about their ability to stay in college. Another 34% said they weren\u0092t concerned.<\/p>\n
They were even more pessimistic about the state of the labor market once they graduate. Just 14% of those college students said it would be easy to find a permanent job after graduation, whereas 85% said it would be difficult. That\u0092s down from nearly a third who said finding a job would be easy in the spring of 2008.<\/p>\n
Lodged among their long list of concerns, though, were hints of optimism. The majority, 52%, said their personal financial situation was good, compared to the 45% who said it was bad. An even larger 57% said their parents\u0092 financial situation was also good.<\/p>\n
Nearly half, 46%, also said they expect to be better off financially than their parents. Just one in 10 expect to be worse off.<\/p>\n
They were divided on how soon the economy would turn around. Nearly a quarter of young people said the economy would get worse in the next year. Another 38% said it would stay the same and 36% said it would get better. <\/p>\n
The survey was conducted between Jan. 29 and Feb. 22. It covered 3,117 young adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.<\/p>\n
Young people are worried about losing their jobs and paying their bills, but they\u0092re still holding out hope that conditions will improve. Some 60% of 18- to 29-year-olds said they were worried about paying their bills and meeting other obligations in this economy as fear of job loss still looms large, a new poll by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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