Are Americans Getting Jittery About Their Jobs, Personal Finances?
Aired February 15, 2001 – 9:47 a.m. ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Job cutbacks and layoff announcements have been in the news a lot lately. So are Americans getting jittery about their own jobs and personal finances? Joining us now from Princeton, New Jersey with some answers, Gallup Poll Editor in Chief Frank Newport. Frank, good morning. FRANK NEWPORT, GALLUP POLL EDITOR IN CHIEF: Good morning, Daryn. My answer to that is quasi-jittery, is how we look at it. There’s some bad news and good news. KAGAN: Technical term. NEWPORT: It’s a technical polling term I’ll use for you. Let’s show you some very interesting recent data from our most recent poll over the weekend. This is to us very interesting. Do you personally know anybody who’s been laid off in the last 12 months? This is of the general population. A look at that, almost half of Americans personally know somebody. So that would say, oops, that fea
