Left and Right Agree on Biggest Issue (But Not Much Else)

What are the biggest challenges for the United States today? Statista's Consumer Insights show that the answer partially depends on respondents' political orientation. However, Americans on the left and the right could agree on one thing when the last survey was carried out between early 2024 and early 2025. Rising prices, inflation and the cost of living crisis were the most frequently picked option among all political groups.

Those describing themselves as part of the political center agreed most often at 61 percent of respondents identifying rising prices and inflation as a major issue in the country. 51 percent on the left as well as on the right also did so. While left-leaning Americans also frequently named issues of housing, climate change and poverty as being important, health/social security was also central to all political orientations, but to varying degrees. Center and right-leaning Americans also both said that crime and the economy were among the other major problems in the U.S.