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Where's the prosperity? Middle class Americans aren't feeling it.
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-25 09:01

Corrections & Clarifications:  An earlier version of this story misspelled Jeremy Horpedahl's name.   America’s middle class is spooked about the economy. Consumer confidence has been falling for most of the past year. On a closely watched University of Michigan index, consumer sentiment sagged to 55.4 in September, down from 70.1 a year ago. Economic anxiety runs "particularly strong among lower- and middle-income consumers," said Joanne Hsu, director of the Michigan surveys. Another index of consu ...