Voters Continue To View Personal Finances Dimly

Publication Date: 12/03/2025 5:00 AM CST

Voters Continue To View Personal Finances Dimly

Publication: 12/03/2025 5:00 AM CST

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Only 26% of voters say their finances are getting better, and another 36% say they are getting worse.
- Numbers were similar 2 weeks ago when 25% said their finances were getting better, while 39% said worse.
- This is the most pessimistic voters have been since before the 2024 election, when 25% said their finances were getting better and 41% said worse.
From July 2021 until just before the 2024 election, more people were pessimistic than optimistic about their finances in every survey.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters rate their personal finances as Good or Excellent.
- This is the same as 2 weeks ago. A month ago, ratings on personal finances as Good or Excellent were at 37%, the lowest since President Trump took office.
- Twenty-four percent (24%) of voters rate their finances as Poor.
- When President Biden took office in 2021, 48% of voters rated their personal finances as Good or Excellent.
- That had fallen to 36% by the time President Trump took office in 2025.
- A majority (54%) of voters who like Trump's policies rate their finances as Good or Excellent.
- An even larger majority (67%) of postgraduates gave a Good or Excellent rating on their finances.
- In contrast, only 21% of voters with no college, 36% with some college, and 44% of undergraduates say their finances are Good or Excellent.

This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, December 1-2, 2025. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1.