{"id":77672,"date":"2026-08-20T15:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/nothing-has-gotten-better-focus-group-shares-affordability-concerns-as-us-debt\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:54:58","slug":"nothing-has-gotten-better-focus-group-shares-affordability-concerns-as-us-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/nothing-has-gotten-better-focus-group-shares-affordability-concerns-as-us-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nothing has gotten better&#8217;: Focus group shares affordability concerns as US debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News&#8217; Allie Canal and Sahil Kapur join Meet the Press NOW as the U.S. national debt tops a record-breaking $40 trillion. Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy, discusses President Trump&#8217;s plans for an &#8220;Economic D-Day&#8221; for Iran. An NBC News focus group produced by Syracuse University and the research firms Engagious and Sago finds that affordability remains the top issue for voters ahead of November&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News&#8217; Allie Canal and Sahil Kapur join Meet the Press NOW as the U.S. national debt tops a record-breaking $40 trillion. Ravi Agrawal, editor in chief of Foreign Policy, discusses President Trump&#8217;s plans for an &#8220;Economic D-Day&#8221; for Iran. An NBC News focus group produced by Syracuse University and the research firms Engagious and &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Nothing has gotten better&#8217;: Focus group shares affordability concerns as US debt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/nothing-has-gotten-better-focus-group-shares-affordability-concerns-as-us-debt\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Nothing has gotten better&#8217;: Focus group shares affordability concerns as US debt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}