Inflation, partisanship and the pandemic have made them glummer than the numbers suggest they should feel
I think the author just looked up statistics to reach a conclusion convenient to them.
Just ask the actual people. (Why didn’t they do interviews?) There are so many details lost in their cherrypicked numbers. Prices, wages, housings, they are very bad according to what I read online, contrary to what the author argues citing average growths. Maybe they have no grasp of reality anymore?
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Because the literal majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. Trickle down doesn’t work.
Weekly reminder that “trickle down economics” was always meant as a criticism. Coined by Will Rogers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#:~:text=Trickle-down economics is a,critics of supply-side economics.
Far from the only joke in American politics. Will Rogers is as relevant now as always.