Eighty-one percent (81%) of American adults know someone who is out of work and looking for a job. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that the numbers vary little across demographic, partisan and income groups.
One-out-of-six working Americans (16%) consider themselves to be among the working poor.
More than one in four employed adults (27%) now say they are looking for a job outside their current company.
With mid-term elections just months away, Americans continue to view being a member of Congress as the least favorable of nine professions.
