Two periods of time in recent decades have marked a “boom” in the nation’s economic cycle. Those were the “Morning in America” Reagan years and the dot-com boom of the later Clinton years. …
The last five or so years — within the recent memory of almost everyone now reading these words — is the really significant negative time period in recent history, with Americans heading off into the economic wilderness and recording the worst “worse off” numbers in our history of asking this question.
These views have recovered modestly, but in our latest reading the measure remains in net negative territory. CONT.
Frank Newport, Gallup