The percentage of Americans feeling positive about the U.S. job market — saying now is a “good time” to find a quality job — jumped six percentage points in the past month to 45%, restoring this figure to the seven-year high it reached in January. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
Donald Trump doesn’t need Latino voters to win
It’s safe to say that virtually all political professionals think Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is doomed. The odds of him winning the Republican nomination are long, and the odds of him winning the general election are nonexistent, they say. … If the eventual Republican nominee needs 47 percent of the […] Read more »
Americans’ Satisfaction With Job Aspects Up From 2005
Employed Americans’ satisfaction with 13 aspects of their current jobs has largely improved in the last decade. The percentages of workers “completely satisfied” with their health benefits and vacation time have increased the most since 2005, each rising at least 10 percentage points. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
2016 Outsiders and the Economic Roots of Voter Anger
The conventional wisdom holds that those “outsider” presidential candidates in both parties who are resonating with angry voters–Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Ted Cruz (who casts himself as an outsider)–will eventually give way to more “electable” candidates. But the more those candidates rise in the polls, […] Read more »
U.S. Holds Off a World of Economic Trouble
… The economy invariably becomes a political target when there is no White House incumbent running for re-election. The opposition party has to talk about how bad things are and its ideas for change. The incumbent party, in this case the Democrats, must be more nuanced, striving to avoid getting […] Read more »
Why Donald Trump is winning
There is a deep economic anxiety driving Republican voters toward the blunt-spoken presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. It is more than just anger at the political class or rebellion against political correctness. It reflects decades of lost jobs and falling wages for a swath of blue-collar Americans, who saw […] Read more »