NYers feeling sour about the economy
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- July
- 10
Feeling pessimistic about your economic prospects, and those for the state? If so, you have plenty of company, according to a poll released today.
“It may sound like a broken record, but it’s true,’’ said Douglas Lonnstrom of the Siena Research Institute, which conducted the poll. “Across every demographic, consumer confidence has hit a new record low.’’
Surging prices for gas and groceries are the major culprits, the survey found, especially for people making less than $50,000 a year.
The poll of 813 adults found the confidence “index’’ at 56.2, down more than three points from a month ago and almost four points below the national figure.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
