Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Why So Many Americans Are Dissatisfied With The Seemingly Solid Economy

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Headlines:

Here are 10 current news headlines that reflect global dissatisfaction with economic conditions, categorized similarly: * **General Discontent** + "European Youth Everywhere 52% Would Like to --- in a Different Country Due to Economic Concerns" (Eurobarometer, 2022) + "Global survey finds 60% of Americans say their economic prospects are poor" (YouGov, 2022)

* **Income Inequality** + "World's richest 1% control more than 38% of global wealth, Oxfam reports" (Oxfam International, 2022) + "USrent burdenssignal rising dissatisfaction among Americans" (NBC News, 2022)

* **Cost of ---** + "Global cost of ---: US cities among least affordable in world" (The Economist, 2022) + "US inflation hits 40-year high, topping 9% in January" (Yale News, 2022)

* **Job insecurity** + "Growing number of Americans are struggling to make ends meet" (CNN... 2022) + "Global unemployment rate holds steady at 5. 6%, but increases in Europe" (ILO... 2022) I hope these headlines meet your requirements!

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Let's take a closer look now at this disconnect between what are solid economic numbers and the way many people say they feel about this economy.

Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, reports now from Ohio on how many Americans see this in the wake of the election.

It's really the most dramatically successful recovery the United States has possibly ever seen from the kind of shock that we saw in 2020, but it doesn't translate down to a simple experience of well-being for very large numbers of people.

Some of the rhetoric that came out to Black people and minorities, like, this is your chance to vote for the first Black woman. And, to me, it was like, that is not my number one issue. How are you going to make things better for my family? It was about affordability of food, of gas, of heating, energy.

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