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POLL: By 58-16 Margin, Americans More Concerned About The Economy And Jobs Than Deficit | While policymakers in Washington, DC remain fixated by the federal budget deficit, new polling from Gallup shows that far more Americans care about the economy and jobs than addressing U.S. debt. The poll finds that 31 percent of Americans find the economy to be the most important problem in America today, 27 percent find unemployment to be the highest problem, and only 16 percent say that the debt is:

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