We have good and bad news. The good news is Americans are gaining confidence in the economy. The bad news is they are meanwhile losing confidence in other areas.
More Americans rate the economy positively than negatively, according to last week Gallup’s Economic Confidence Index. That’s refreshing to see since the index has been depressingly negative since 2008.
But on the other hand, Americans are getting increasingly worried about terrorism. More than half of Americans are concerned a “great deal” about the possibility of a future terrorist attacks on the United States, according to a Gallup poll published March 17. A year ago, less than two in five Americans shared the same concern.
A string of murders of foreigners committed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), recorded on video and published online, likely played a major part in the increased alarm in the American psyche.
