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Them. so, how is your economic security? or actually more precisely how is your economic insecurity? well, according to a new study, brand-new study with a new measure, its a lot higher than it was 25 years ago. well talk to the author coming up. ieve youre never done growing. i want to take him on his first flight. [ female announcer ] discover the best of whats next at aarp.org.

♪ well, if youre insecure about your finances waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat worrying about it, well, youre not alone. a new study today finds the american dream of economic security has taken a pretty serious hit. according to the report, the feeling of uneasiness is at a 45 -- sorry, 25-year high, with one out of every five americans suffering a 25% decline in their household income. joining me now to talk about this is yale professor jacob hacker. he developed this e...

Three years or longer for it to come back. and 28% say four or more years. when was the last time we saw numbers like this? >> were going back a long way and youre actually going back to the recession of the 1979 through 1983 period that we felt numbers like this. this is awfully tough on the american public and this is what we found in our poll for citi which is just the public is looking for a bounce back and doesnt see it. there isnt this sense of confidence and there isnt this sense that wer...

Hit. terrorism on top of an economic challenge would be devastating for us. therefore, we have to stay on our toes and try to prevent that from happening. thirdly, i think that the long term benefit of having positive relationships in this part of the world is good for our economy as well. we have an export initiative that president obama has announced. we want to double exports. we need to open up markets. how do you open markets? you raise standards of living. eliminate insecurity so people ca...

Terrorism on top of an economic challenge would be devastating for us. therefore, we have to stay on our toes and try to prevent that from happening. thirdly, i think that the long term benefit of having positive relationships in this part of the world is good for our economy as well. we have an export initiative that president obama has announced. we want to double exports. we need to open up markets. how do you open markets? you raise standards of living. eliminate insecurity so people can buy...

Republicans have no head, no heart no, brain, ed, in the way they voted. they are cruel and callous, not clueless, as we talked about. i think their strategy is to throw people under the bus. lives are in the balance, but they want president obama to fail. what they dont understand, and they have no head, is that job creation, as sherrod brown said earlier, you said, job creation is essential for a robust real recovery in this country, and they are consigning millions of americans and this count...

Bloomingdales and you look in the mirror and you say, who is this person staring back at me? for me, reading the book, that was at the bottom, the crux of why you had this addiction, what sparked it. >> it was definitely a big part of it. i think i was born an addict and alcoholic and i think one of the ways that manifested for me was this great insecurity and so, when i ended up in new york in the world of book publishing, any success i might have had i sort of attributed to luck and, you know,...

Perhaps a good reason many call it social insecurity. juliet. >> juliet: brenda buttner, thank you. the first family returns home, theyre look at the white house after a weekend break in maine. the president and his family did some hiking and did some biking in maines acadia national park and spent time in the resort town of bar harbor. the first family has more plans, malia is headed off to camp for the first time and the president plans to return to the gulf coast soon to check out the latest ...

Under. >> this has been a difficult time for america right now. two years of brutal recession. a decade of economic insecurity. and there are going to be some hard days ahead. >> hard days ahead indeed especially for the 46% of unemployed out of work six months or longer. candy, how does this drive into the midterm elections, a brighter future, but the right now is really tough for a lot of voters. >> its a tough sell. i think you can just start with 9.5 unemployment. its just tough to say, hey,...

Two years of brutal recession, a decade of economic insecurity. and there are going to be hard days ahead. thats the truth. its going to take a while for us to dig ourselves out of this hole. but what you are proving here, each and every one of you who work here at smith electric is the promise of a brighter future. what youre proving is that if we hold fast to that spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation, thats always defined america, were not just going to emerge from this period of turmoil,...