The economic system stays the highest bipartisan situation heading into the brand new yr, in response to an open-ended ballot surveying People on their top-five points for the federal government to work on in 2023, carried out by the Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis in December.
Some 30 % of People say inflation is a excessive precedence — roughly twice the quantity who stated it was final yr, although down 40 % since June — whereas three-quarters of adults say they’re nonetheless not assured within the authorities to make progress on the issues the nation faces.
Republicans’ prime priorities for 2023 additionally embrace immigration as a urgent situation, in addition to crime, overseas coverage points, vitality, well being care, and gasoline costs. About 40 % of Democrats, in the meantime, stated local weather change points had been a prime precedence, adopted by gun points, schooling, abortion or girls’s rights, and racism and poverty. Learn extra concerning the outcomes at The Related Press.