Financial recovery may be slow after the economic meltdown, but there is hope this holiday season according to a new Zogby Interactive poll. Seventy two percent of adults say they either already consider themselves poor (20 percent) or can imagine becoming poor (52 percent), yet Americans can see light at the end of the tunnel.

Thirty-three percent of Americans expect their financial situation to improve a year from now and that figure jumps as we look to the future. Fifty percent of Americans believe their personal financial situation will be better off five years from now, 18 percent think their situation will be about the same, and 20 percent believe they will be worse off financially five years from now.