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Most of Us Are Not Doing So Well: Numbers Crunching Working People

Striking United Auto Workers Union (UAW) members and supporters picket the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, Sept. 25, 2019, in Detroit. (Photo: Jim West/ZUMA Wire)

Though a recent poll suggests the majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s “overall performance,” they support his “handling of the economy” more than other issues surveyed.

“The prosperity cycle we have entered into is continuing, it is strong,” White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow celebrated last April. “This is the new Trump economy,” and “I’ll tell you it’s working.”

Whoo-hoo!

Our government’s and corporate media’s failure to capture the true extent of unemployment creates a distorted narrative about work that feeds bewilderment and self-recrimination.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/03/most-us-are-not-doing-so-well-numbers-crunching-working-people?fbclid=IwAR1Ob408ED92aMluRnC2lC2PhtmcYK9WQjTD94zwReO04vGc9OrNph14P0g

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