Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor to Deliver Comprehensive Assessment of...

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Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:31am EDT 

Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor to Deliver Comprehensive
Assessment of Middle Class Anxieties and Changing Attitudes

In-depth poll to measure perceptions on issues ranging from healthcare costs,
retirement and job security to who is best equipped to solve today's financial
crisis

CHICAGO and WASHINGTON -- The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) and National
Journal will on Friday, April 24th at an event beginning at 8am in National
Journal Group Headquarters at The Watergate offer detailed results from the
first Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor.  This poll is the first in
a series of detailed measurements to analyze in specific terms how the
recession and financial crisis is impacting personal budgets and is affecting
long-held perceptions about the future of the middle class.

Allstate Chairman, President and CEO Tom Wilson will be present to discuss the
significance of the poll and the broad social, political and economic
questions that this comprehensive research addresses. Detailed results from
this unique survey will be presented by Atlantic Media Company Political
Director Ronald Brownstein and FD CEO Edward J. Reilly.  

Interviews are available by advance request. 

Reporters will be able to listen to the event remotely and participate in a
Q&A session by dialing (866) 758-1805 and using conference ID 95732357
starting at 9 am. The event will also be streamed live on the Internet at
NextGenWeb.org.

    WHO:   TOM WILSON, Chairman, President and CEO, Allstate Corporation
           RONALD BROWNSTEIN, Political Director, Atlantic Media Company
           EDWARD J. REILLY, CEO, FD

    WHEN:  Friday, April 24, 2009
           8:30 am - Breakfast and networking
           9:00 am - Program and panel presentations

    WHERE: The Watergate
           National Journal Group Headquarters
           600 New Hampshire Avenue NW
           Washington DC

    RSVP   Brendan McManus              Margot Olcay
           212 850 5626                 212 850 5611
           Brendan.mcmanus@fd.com       Margot.olcay@fd.com


/PRNewswire -- April 20/

SOURCE  Allstate Corporation
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