Half of Americans have deep concerns about their financial situation, according to Gallup.
The 50 percent of people in the U.S. who have money worries is basically unchanged from the 49 percent Gallup found in 2014.
{mosads}But those findings are also far lower than the aftermath of the fiscal crisis between 2008 and 2012, when the percentage of Americans concerned rose as high as 61 percent. As few as two in five people were worried about financial challenges in the early part of the George W. Bush administration.
Gallup asked respondents seven separate questions about their finances, including whether they thought they had enough money for retirement, to maintain their standard of living or to cover their monthly housing costs.
Those who expressed concern about three of the seven metrics were counted as worried about their finances.