I’m not informed enough to know.
Is 20 to 35 percent saying their financial situation has improved a lot?
It seems like a low number to me but the writer is saying they are good numbers.
I’ve not a clue. If someone does, please fill me in and thanks ahead of time.
Likely means that the gap between the percentage of people who feel worse off and the percentage of people who feel better off is 20 to 35 percent, so quite large compared to normal values
I would offer these three observations:
1. The ‘Trump-turbo’ is not at the same level across all fifty states. Certain states (Alabama would be a good example)...things are looking great (Huntsville in September had a unemployment rate of 2.1-percent). Other regions...Alaska is a good example is at 6.1 percent. So nationally, trying to get a clear statement is difficult.
2. Those people who were sitting there in 2014 with a McDonalds burger-flipper job, and barely making $10 an hour....are now finding assembly/industry type jobs in the $15 range, with some bright future that they might be making $18 by the end of 2020. Those folks are looking at the best Christmas period in the past decade.
3. Finally, you come to the phrase ‘a lot’. With the tax changes that occurred, some folks are standing there with $200 extra in their hand at the end of the month. For some of us...$200 isn’t that big of a deal. For some unmarried mothers, that’s cash that you can spend on your kids, and improve things. For folks who were making in the $25k a year range during the Obama era, and now making $32k a year...’a lot’ is something that you be happy over.
I should add this....a number of business operations (even McDonalds), are looking to hire more senior citizens to fill spots because of the limited number of people applying for work. Those are also people in an improved situation, with another layer of cash on top of social security.
PA has the lowest unemployment rate since records started.. Its not in play.
income growth under Bush II, $4 a month over 8 years, Obama $9 a month over 8 years, Trump $150+ a month over 3 years.... Trump isn’t losing folks...
He won’t lose a single state he got in 16, and he will win most, if not all states he got over 45% of the vote in, and will take the battle to states where he got around 40% of the vote, and don’t be shocked if you see him pick off some of those as well.
Best case for any Dem is 15 states and DC... and they are not remotely on a BEST CASE scenario.
2020 is all about dems hoping beyond hope they can hold the house... that’s really the only question going into 2020... Trump will handily win the White House, and GOP will comfortably hold the Senate, if they don’t gain seats...