Around the memory day, polls often ask Americans about their summer holiday plans. The answers are a rough emotion barometer about the health of the economy and our own prospects. What have we learned from recent polls? Most Americans will have a summer vacation?
Last week the University of Michigan released its last Consumer indexsaying that the feeling was “unchanged” since April, ending in four consecutive months of “submerged decrease”. Michigan attributed the change to the cessation at the time of researching Donald Trump’s re -tariff statements. Slut reported that the total evaluations of the economy were “unchanged” since the beginning of 2025. In May Harvard Center for American Political Studies/Harris Poll51% of registered voters described the economy as strong for the first time since July 2021, while almost so many, 49%, described it as weak.
Most people in another question said their personal financial situation was weak (39%), but this represented an improvement by Harvard/Harris polls during the winter. Thirty -four percent said that their condition improved and 27% believed that they were the same. At the end of May, CBS News/Yougov They said that Americans’ views on the economy were a little “brighter” than it was this winter, but even more negative (54%) than positive (39%). In the February and March polls, a third was positive.
CBS added more details to overall ratings. Fifty -eight percent of respondents said prices paying for goods and services have increased in recent weeks, 30% believed that it had remained the same and 11% said it had decreased. Only 24% believed that their income was to keep up with inflation.
Natural gas prices are one of the most sensitive political indicators and a naked poll in the poll said they remain in their area (37%), while 30% believed they increased and 11% down. Of those planning to take a summer vacation, 89% said they would do it by road/car, the most famous way of transporting Americans.
In the CBS poll, 43% said they were planning to have a summer vacation this year, from 39% in 2024. An important majority say they would not have a vacation (57%), with plans to stay at home. Using a different approach, a new Ipsos poll He found that 58% said they intended to take over a night trip over 100 miles this summer, 47% traveling by plane to the domestic market and 27% travel by plane internationally. Sixty one percent said they would take a vacation to disconnect and escape everything from 69% in 2024.
And where would the Americans like? In 2016, the Roper Center in Cornell He looked at the public interest in traveling to our national parks and said that in 1955, 15% told Gallup that they would visit a national park. When asked in the same poll which national parks had ever visited, 15% said that large smoked mountains followed by 11% of Grand Canyon and 10% Yosemite. With the availability and ease of car travel and the increasing importance of leisure and preservation in our lives, Roper said “[b]Y 2001, A Los Angeles Times [poll] found that 72% had visited “in a national park. In 2024, a file 332 million people visited a national park.
Last summer, when the Pew Research Center Asked about the public’s views on 16 different federal government services, the National Park Service had the highest favorable score (76%). Republicans and Democrats gave similar answers. Only 7% evaluated the body unfavorable.
There is some temporary indications that the approval rating of Donald Trump is increasing and the perception that the economy is no longer reduced (or at least levels) may be the reason. Could contribute less disorder than invoices. When asked by Harvard/Harris about Trump’s biggest failure or mistake in his second term, the top 26% response was “invoices that stopped the economy”.
Even with the invoice and uncertainty of recent months, people still see Republicans as the best managers of the economy by the Democrats. To one New CNN pollMore people said that the Republican Party’s views on the economy (38%) were closer to their own views of the Democratic Party (31%). This has happened in three previous polls from the spring of 2022.
Holiday taking is based on financial status ratings, including uncertainty seems to reduce summer vacation programs in 2025. If our national parks are in the short term, the public is likely to notice.
