This AEI Public Opinion Study brings together existing trend questions about Americans' job concerns, personal finances, retirement, health costs, housing, and more to get a sense of how anxious or economically insecure Americans feel.

This study brings together existing trend questions from many pollsters about Americans' concerns regarding their jobs, personal finances, retirement, health care, and more.

Comprehensive data regarding public opinion on concerns regarding jobs, personal finances, retirement, health care, and more.

Ismiddle class economic insecurity real? Few describe themselves as being on easy street, but most of us are getting by.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

While I agree that there's no question that America's ability to field a military second to none depends on our economic fundamentals, the position of "superpower" seems to me a bit more complex.

How do people perceive their own well-being and that of their neighbors, friends, and families?

How to keep a credible U.S. presence in Asia under a significantly reduced military budget is the new challenge for U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. The answer, unfortunately, may well rest with Beijing.