Are you actually poor, or is it that you just keep hearing that you are poor and have chosen to believe it?
The Harris Poll did a survey for the Guardian that shows that 56% of Americans believe that we are in a recession (though, actually, gross domestic product (GDP), the measure of the economy, has been growing), 49% believe that the S&P 500 index is down for the year (it’s up more than 16%), 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high (it is at a 50-year low), and 72% think that inflation is increasing (the rate of inflation has eased for four months in a row, to 2.9% in July 2024, from a post-COVID peak of 9% in June 2022).
