WASHINGTON — No matter what President Obama said about the state of our union Tuesday night, the economy’s prognosis is not good.
Who says so? A hefty majority of the American people in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll that sought their opinion about the economy’s health. Roughly six in 10 said it was “not so good” or “poor.”
Six years into Obama’s painfully slow recovery, jobs are hard to come by in many parts of the country and wages remain flat. Hourly earnings actually fell last month, the U.S. Labor Department reported last week.
It’s gotten so bad that Obama’s own secretary of labor, Thomas Perez, publicly complained that the administration needed to get busy to “address the business of stubbornly low real wage growth.”
Life has gotten much worse under Obama’s presidency for many others we don’t hear much about on the nightly news. A recent study by the Southern Education Foundation said that for the first time in half a century, a majority (51 percent) of public school students are living beneath the poverty income line
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