Middle-income Americans pessimistic about their financial future amid persistent inflation, analysis shows

Middle-income Americans are facing an economic hangover from the inflation of the last several years, and it has led to increased pessimism about their financial prospects, a new analysis finds.A report by Primerica found that in the third quarter of 2025, just 21% of middle-income Americans believe they'll be better off financially in the next year, while 34% believe they'll be worse off and 33% expect their situation to remain the same.Those figures are notably more pessimistic than the firm's data from the third quarter of 2020 showed, when 33% of middle-income Americans thought they would