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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.

Americans' confidence in the economy showed no change last week as the U.S. stock market's rally slowed. The Gallup Economic Confidence Index was -13 for the week ending April 7.

As automatic federal budget cuts approach, Gallup's Economic Confidence Index was -13 last week, compared with -11 the prior week. Confidence fell during the week, and remains below the five-year weekly high of -8 from early February.

Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index averaged -11 for the past week, essentially the same as the -13 from the prior week and three points off the five-year best of -8 two weeks ago.

A Gallup comparison of President Obama's State of the Union speech and Gallup's Most Important Problem question reveals that both prioritize economics. Obama put more emphasis than Americans do on education, and less on the deficit.

Americans have grown far more positive about the U.S. economy throughout January, with their views last week sending Gallup's Economic Confidence Index to its highest level since Gallup began tracking it daily in January 2008.

More than half of U.S. small-business owners say healthcare costs and taxes are hurting their businesses "a lot," more than say the same about six other issues tested in a January Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business survey.

Americans' concerns about the federal budget deficit and government dysfunction rose high enough in January to knock unemployment out of the top two slots on Gallup's "most important problem" list for the first time since 2009.

More than three-quarters of Americans (77%) say the way politics works in Washington these days is causing serious harm to the United States, still another indicator of the low esteem in which Americans hold their government.

Majorities of Americans believe the U.S. eclipses other industrialized countries when it comes to the freedoms, quality of life, and opportunities its residents enjoy. But most say the U.S. economic and healthcare systems trail behind others'.