Americans' satisfaction with country's direction still low: Poll
Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the US rebounded in the month of August but is still low, according to a new poll.
Only 27 percent of Americans are now satisfied with the state of affairs in their country, similar to the level from February through June, Gallup's monthly poll found.
Dissatisfaction with the US economy and government was at the top of the list, according to the survey.
Seventeen percent believe the economy in general is the most important problem facing the country, while 13 percent name the government dysfunction as the main problem.
Dissatisfaction with terrorism is at 9 percent, ranking third among the most important problems, followed by the unemployment/jobs and immigration/illegal aliens at 8 percent.
Dissatisfaction with crime/violence was at 7 percent, while dissatisfaction with crime/violence stood at 5 percent, most likely a reaction to the recent gun violence and mass shootings in the states of Minnesota, Texas, Louisiana and Florida.
Last month, Alton Sterling was shot and killed after an altercation with police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One day after Sterling’s death, Philando Castile was fatally shot by police in his car in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.
Those police killings triggered two separate revenge attacks by two black military veterans against white officers, killing 5 officers in Dallas, Texas, and 3 officers in Baton Rouge.
According to a recent survey, racial tensions in the US are at the highest level since the 1992 Los Angeles riots that were started after a jury acquitted four white police officers of the use of excessive force in the videotaped arrest and beating of African American Rodney King.
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