President Biden’s first year in the White House has ushered in record job gains, unprecedented wage gains for low-income workers and GDP growth not seen in decades.
But polls show Americans remain deeply cynical about how the president is handling the economy — and that’s a problem for Biden and Democratic lawmakers heading into November’s midterm elections.
The president and his advisers routinely tout statistics that show how the economy is surging by most traditional economic metrics, seemingly mystified about why the American public isn’t giving Democrats more credit for this boom….