Back then, about two-thirds of voters said the economy was in bad shape, according to the results of the ABC News exit poll. Forty-seven percent of voters said their own financial situation was worse than it had been four years earlier, which exceeded the share who held that view in the immediate wake of the Great Recession in 2008.

Economic worries were the dominant concern as voters cast ballots for Tuesday’s elections, according to preliminary findings from the AP Voter Poll.

Democratic gubernatorial candidates Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey won both elections, receiving campaign support from former President Obama.

Alliance editor, Kate Balding,speaks to P4NE director, Jo Swinson, and executive director of KR Foundation, Brian Valbjørn Sørensen, to make sense of the New Economy and funders place within it. Kate Balding: In your opinion,

“Finance leaders today are being pushed to do more with less,” said Dan Drees, President of AvidXchange. “Automation is the lever that changes the equation – by taking manual AP and payments work off their plate, it frees up time, reduces cost, and gives teams the space to focus on strategy.”

This isn’t a purely partisan trend. Over the last month, the perception that the economy is getting worse increased by 7 points among Democrats (from 81% to 88%), by 5 points among independents (from 58% to 63%) and by 4 points among Republicans (from 16% to 20%).

Democrats harnessed worries about the cost of living, with polls showing that Republicans’ longtime advantage on the economy has evaporated.

AUSTIN, Texas - More Texans are growing concerned about the economy and their personal economic outlook, according to a new poll from the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas.

Over 4 in 10 of New Jersey voters said that support for transgender rights in society have "gone too far," according to preliminary exit polling. Roughly another quarter said they have not gone far enough and around a quarter said support for trans rights has been about right.

Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.