> Americans believed the economy was in the tank, despite loads of evidence showing the opposite.
The evidence they use is in the form of the financial markets. Blue collar workers don't care about the market. Nurses don't care about the market, construction workers don't care about the market. They care about can they afford food, can they afford a home, and can they afford healthcare. The answer is more and more becoming no.
Exactly! There probably is a disconnect in perception driven by political agenda like the essay suggests, but Americans who exist in the real world and not in the quirky stock market graphs world know that how well the stock market is doing is more and more disconnected from how well the average American is doing. The phenomenon in the article can in large part explained by rampant wealth inequality.
The evidence they use is in the form of the financial markets. Blue collar workers don't care about the market. Nurses don't care about the market, construction workers don't care about the market. They care about can they afford food, can they afford a home, and can they afford healthcare. The answer is more and more becoming no.