The Biden-Harris Economy Shines on Wisconsin
This crucial swing state that will help determine the 47th occupant of the White House has rebounded from Donald Trump’s empty promises.
Wisconsin’s economy is doing better than ever.
Photographer: Hannah Beier/Bloomberg
“Do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?” That was the initial question neither Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Donald Trump answered during their staged debate in Philadelphia earlier this month.
Harris could have said with little qualification from fact checkers that the US is in the best shape since she grew up “a middle-class kid” with “hard-working people, you know, construction workers and nurses and teachers.” Harris was discursive probably because public opinion polls showed Trump with greater approval on the economy than President Joe Biden, even though Harris suddenly erased this seemingly losing issue with voters expressing optimism about their well-being. Consumer net worth as measured by a mixture of housing, equities and bank deposits is up almost 11% this quarter from a year earlier to $167.8 trillion, according to Evercore ISI.