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Here’s Why Americans Aren’t Loving the Economy
If you think of them as workers instead of consumers, it’s easy to understand their dissatisfaction.
Not impressed.
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Experts have been puzzling over a seeming disconnect in America: By most measures the economy is doing well, but it's not giving people much satisfaction or confidence. Could it, they wonder, have something to do with social media, or the human propensity to share bad news first?
Actually there's no mystery — if one thinks of people as workers instead of consumers. Even as unemployment remains extremely low, they have ample reason for discontent.