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For the seventh year in the past decade, Americans name dissatisfaction with the government as the top problem in 2022, with economic issues close behind.

Gallup's Job Creation Index was down three points in early October, to +18, during the government shutdown. It had been steady at +21 or +22 from May through September after being lower earlier this year.

A number of our elected representatives have somberly proclaimed that there are no winners from the recent government shutdown and near-default. These utterances have not prevented pundits from weighing in with various lists of "winners" and ...

Americans' basic opinions of Barack Obama, John Boehner, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell have grown more negative since the government shutdown began. Nancy Pelosi's rating remains negative, but a little less negative than before.

The 26% of U.S. adults approving of the job Congress is doing is the highest for the institution since February 2017.

Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport compares Americans' approval of the 2010 Affordable Care Act before and after the government shutdown.

An estimated 5.6% of U.S. adults rate their lives poorly enough to be categorized as "suffering," the highest level in 14 years of measurement.

Americans' confidence in the economy is still slowly recovering two months after the federal government shutdown ended. The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was -20 last week, compared with -15 in mid-September before the shutdown.

Americans' confidence in the economy stalled last week after improving for five consecutive weeks. Gallup's Economic Confidence Index slipped two points to -26.

U.S. confidence in public schools has sunk back to where it was pre-pandemic, but Democrats' confidence is up while Republicans' is down.