This year may have seen unemployment drop, stocks rise, and continued — albeit slowing — growth, but those are all big-picture, “macro” numbers for the U.S. economy. On the ground, for Americans staring at spiraling digits on gas pumps and grocery registers, the numbers they’re watching are rising prices. And […] Read more »
Biden Approval, Legislation and the American Public
President Joe Biden signed the new $1.2 trillion “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” into law this week. From the American public’s perspective, this is a big deal. I wrote about the public’s desire to have more of their federal money spent on infrastructure as far back as 2016, saying at […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Biden’s ratings down, as voters say he’s focused on wrong things
There’s no way to spin the latest Fox News poll numbers — they are that bad for President Joe Biden. … Biden currently receives his lowest marks on a Fox News survey: approval stands at 44 percent, while 54 percent disapprove. It was 46-53 percent last month. His best, 56-43 […] Read more »
Biden’s economic plan bets on blue collars, from infrastructure to child care
The bipartisan infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday marks a milestone in his effort to reorient Democratic economic policy away from the strategy of his party’s past two presidents. The sweeping infrastructure plan — which funds some $550 billion in new spending on roads, bridges, ports, […] Read more »
Inflation threatens Biden agenda, Democratic majorities
Inflation threatens to slow President Joe Biden’s agenda, and Republicans say it will help them decimate the Democratic majority in Congress. “Next year’s election will be a referendum on grocery prices and you can expect Republican challengers to talk about little else between now and then,” said John Ashbrook, co-founder […] Read more »
Biden has reached a critical moment in the battle for blue-collar voters
Just as Democrats face another round of hand-wringing about their erosion among working-class and rural White voters — after last week’s daunting election results in Virginia and New Jersey — the long-delayed congressional approval of a historic infrastructure plan will test President Joe Biden’s central theory on how the party […] Read more »