pocketbook

Polls asking voters about priorities use different methodologies, but they broadly agree on the dominance of pocketbook concerns.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Consumers remain focused on pocketbook issues like purchasing power, while political or military developments remain more in the background,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

All of it, unfortunately, has been passed down to your pocketbook in one form or another.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Broader electorates require democracy narratives grounded in pocketbook realities.”

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Setting her pocketbook down on the table, she bent over to dig in it, her hair hanging down both sides of her face.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Metro just can’t open our pocketbooks and throw money at the agency,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“With ⁠a resurgence in fuel prices and trade tensions, consumers anticipate greater pressures on their pocketbooks to come,” Joanne ⁠Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

So the impact of the debt "finds its way to the pocketbooks of people one way or another," says MacGuineas.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

This could ultimately matter more to consumers’ pocketbooks than the action in oil itself, according to Tracy Shuchart, senior economist at NinjaTrader.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026

Most grandmothers of her species carry a coffee-table-sized photo album in their tote-bag-sized pocketbooks.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg