{"id":842021,"date":"2026-09-09T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842021\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:24:08","slug":"consumers-are-growing-worried-about-their-personal-finances-and-the-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/842021\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers are growing worried about their personal finances and the job market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/newsevents\/news\/research\/2026\/20260908\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Fed survey<\/a> has found that consumers grew more worried in August about their personal financial situation and the job market.<\/p>\n<p>The survey looks at how consumers expect overall inflation and prices for food, gas housing and education to behave. <\/p>\n<p>They found that the median inflation uncertainty, which is the uncertainty expressed regarding future inflation outcomes, increased at the one- and five-year horizons and decreased at three-year horizon.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY |\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/us-news\/37-percent-of-americans-say-theyve-gone-to-sleep-hungry-because-of-money-issues\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">37 percent of Americans say they&#8217;ve gone to sleep hungry because of money issues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Expectations for where unemployment will be a year from now climbed to the highest level since the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found people are less confident they could quickly find a new job if they lost one.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to worrying about their own financial situations, perceptions and expectations deteriorated with many households reporting worse financial situations compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>They added that perceptions of credit access compared to a year ago also declined, with many reporting difficulties getting credit to increase. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED STORY |\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scrippsnews.com\/politics\/economy\/us-economy-stumbles-with-july-job-losses-and-sticky-inflation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US economy stumbles with July job losses and sticky inflation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also expect a worse financial situation a year from now, and smaller shares of households reporting or expecting a better financial situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York Fed survey has found that consumers grew more worried in August about their personal financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112],"class_list":["post-842021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}