The slight majority of Americans say they are worse off than four years ago, while their assessments of the U.S. economy are subpar and inflation remains a key concern.

As Carville said, “Its the economy, stupid”

  • @[email protected]English
    13•6 months ago

    Worse off than at the height of the global pandemic? Uh… I mean I know things are rough right now, but I don’t know if they’re “wondering how many people I know won’t survive the year” rough.

    • Ivysaur [she/her]English
      6•6 months ago

      they’re “wondering how many people I know won’t survive the year” rough.

      For some of us this never ended, yes, because guess what else never ended?

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]English
        8•6 months ago

        They do cite “September 2020” in the article as a time when 55% felt better off than four years ago; you know, the time when there was like two 9/11s of deaths daily

    • miz [any, any]English
      7•6 months ago

      I preferred lockdown and having a reason to be stuck at home to being the only person masking and doomscrolling the genocidal extermination of small children

  • vegeta1 [he/him]English
    42•6 months ago

    They’re gonna be in for a shock when they find out caging immigrants and bombing citizens halfway across the globe doesn’t improve this

    • @[email protected]English
      7•6 months ago

      Sure, but what if we cut taxes for the rich and then increased military spending. Surely that would help?

  • kittin [he/him]English
    44•6 months ago

    Here’s a study of inflation that excludes housing, groceries, and energy… oh turns out your eyes are lying.

    • Hexboare [they/them]English
      22•6 months ago

      me with my basket of groceries that’s just caviar I don’t know what they’re complaining about

      • kittin [he/him]English
        20•6 months ago

        The 5 properties I bought back in 2003 are worth almost 3x what I paid for them how can you be complaining the economy is going amazing

    • PKMKII [none/use name]English
      7•6 months ago

      Not to mention the cost of loans as the only inflation control mechanism the government uses is increasing interest rates.

  • TheModerateTankie [any]English
    25•6 months ago

    The Democrats declared victory over covid and took away all the progressive policies enacted because of the pandemic. That immediately took healthcare away from tons of people, and plunged many more back into poverty. They did this after taking a victory lap for lifting so many people out of poverty in the pandemic response.

    Covid isnt killing as many people but it’s still a pandemic virus with unpredictable worldwide waves, but now everyone “middle class” and under are poorer and struggling with inflation. They are also getting sick a lot more often by something that can’t be covid, because covid is over, right?

    Great job!

  • REgon [they/them]English
    24•6 months ago

    But my graphs!

    “Majority of Americans feel are worse off now, than four years ago” fixed the title