For anyone still employed after the last four years of economic tumult, making plans 90 days in the future has become a big deal – especially when it comes to retirement planning.

But the most recent round of Country Financial Security Index surveys does suggest that American workers are showing just a little bit of optimism, even if a traumatic period of federal election in-fighting and name-calling is underway.

The most telling stat from the survey: Some 79 percent of those polled are fairly confident they won't lose their jobs in the next 90 days, a market improvement from the responses generated back in 2009.

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