(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Americans are in general agreement that the nation’s economy is improving, but not their own personal situation, a depressing reality that the administration can’t shake the country out of no matter what it does.
A big reason: They just don't believe the president and his team's boasting about the economy, with 52 percent in a new poll believing that there are more people unemployed than the president says.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll found that the “positive assessment has yet to become part of most Americans daily conversations about the economy. And Americans are far more likely to credit themselves and American business — and not the president or Congress — for whatever economic improvement there has been.”
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