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Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index was -9 for the week ending July 7, on par with scores from the past month. The index has been slightly lower since reaching a five-year weekly high of -3 in late May and early June.

Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index score was -8 in June, holding near the five-year monthly high of -7 in May. Confidence was steady across income groups, with upper income Americans still more positive than negative about the economy.

Americans' confidence in the economy has declined slightly for two consecutive weeks after reaching its highest level in more than five years. Gallup's Economic Confidence Index is now -9, the lowest it has been in over a month.

Gallup's U.S. Job Creation Index increased to 22 in May, the highest score for any month since April 2008. Hiring in May improved in the East, South, and West, and among nongovernment and government workers.

Gallup's Economic Confidence Index continued to improve in May, surging to -7, the highest monthly score since Gallup Daily tracking began in 2008. Republicans' increasing economic confidence has driven much of the improvement in 2013.

Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index was -6 last week, near the five-year high of -5 from the prior week. The recent level is the most upbeat U.S. consumers have been since Gallup began tracking economic confidence daily in 2008.

The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was -5 last week -- the highest weekly average since Gallup began Daily tracking in 2008. For the first time since then, more Americans now say the economy is "getting better" than "getting worse."

Americans' life ratings were better in April than in any month since August of last year. Americans' life ratings have steadily improved each month since November, when they sank to their lowest level in more than a year.

Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index rose to match the five-year weekly high of -8 last week, which included the best three-day average since 2008. Economic confidence for April tied the five-year monthly high of -13.

Read about Americans' reasons for buying U.S.-made products, their ideas for making higher education more affordable, global economic confidence, and more in this week's review.