The FINANCIAL -- In the United States today, workers expect to change jobs on a regular basis.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just, 37% of working Americans expect to be working for the same employer in five years. That figure is down ten percentage points since July and may partially reflect discouraging short-term economic conditions. However, data from recent years consistently shows that Americans plan on a career path with multiple employers.

Fifteen percent (15%) now expect to be with the same firm for one to five years, and 10% say less than a year. A substantial 38% aren't sure.

Data released earlier showed that 65% believe leaving their job will be their choice. Just 33% say their next job will be better than their current job, a figure that is way down from earlier in the decade. Twenty-one percent (21%) say their next job will not be better while 28% are counting on retiring before finding another job.

Among those who have already worked five years or more for the same employer, 46% say they will still be there more than five years from now. Thirty-five percent (35%) are not sure.

Older workers, those aged 40 to 64, are much more likely than those who are younger to think they will be with the same employer more than five years down the road.

The Rasmussen Employment Index has found for 13 months in a row that the percentage of firms laying off employees exceeds the number that are hiring.

Voters for the first time are blaming President Obama nearly as much as President Bush for the country's continuing economic problems.

Questions linger about the effectiveness of the $787-billion economic stimulus plan proposed by the president and passed by Congress in February.

With unemployment hovering in the 10 percent vicinity, some in Congress and the White House would like a second economic stimulus plan, fearful that the first one hasn't done as much as they had hoped. But 62% of voters oppose the passage of another economic stimulus package this year.

Only 23% of Americans believe that decisions made by world leaders to help the global economy will do more to help the U.S. economy than decisions made by domestic business leaders. Fifty-eight percent (58%) say the American economy will be helped more by decisions made by U.S. business leaders to help their own businesses grow.

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