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Gallup's monitoring of current job market conditions suggest that Americans looking for a job right now face the same bleak situation they did at this time a year ago. This tends to validate the Fed's decision to continue pouring money into the ...

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.

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.

About half of Americans now think the U.S. is the world's No.1 military power, down from last year, and by one percentage point the lowest Gallup has measured over the past quarter century.

Read about Americans' views on sequestration, the best and worst U.S. states for wellbeing, the growing number of Mexicans who want to stay in their homeland, and more in this week's review.

Much of U.S. politics focuses on the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer. But does anyone care that the fat are getting fatter?

Gallup's Economic Confidence Index held steady at -14 last week, maintaining the slight gains it made the prior week.

Fifteen percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is handling its job -- essentially unchanged from 13% in March. Democrats and independents are slightly more likely than Republicans to approve of Congress.

Twenty-one percent of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., down from 27% in February, and the lowest such reading since June 2012.

The budget sequestration that went into effect on March 1 appears to have had little impact on Americans' views of Congress. Thirteen percent of Americans approve of Congress in March, essentially unchanged from 15% in February.