Survey Specifics
This survey, conducted in fall 2010, compiles feedback from nearly 2,750 adults. Researchers packaged the results in various ways, including by gender, ethnic group, age and educational level.
This report shares findings from the 2010 Survey of Economic Security. The survey, conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the Rockefeller Foundation, tells how people felt about their own economic security following the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009. The results are far from rosy and indicate that, even after the recession’s official end, millions of Americans are financially frustrated, vulnerable and struggling.
More than 18 months after the Great Recession’s end, millions of men and women are still struggling to afford the basic building blocks of American life, including: utility bills (68 million), health care (80 million) and food (41 million).