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stagnant wages and stagnant income and lack of upward mobility
Although unemployment has dropped and the Dow is soaring since 2008 - some key industries have been saved - For the vast majority of Americans in both reality and perception - things are just not getting much better. More people have jobs - but many are not in the work they went massively in debt to train for and many are otherwise underemployed. Of course this has been the trend before President Obama
This is not President Obama's fault. But this new economy is simply distributing income less equitably regardless who is in office. Unfortunately the President and his party usually take the blame especially in midterm elections for this kind of malaise.
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