The Trump administration takes every opportunity to insist that the economy is booming. Trump’s most stalwart supporters have been happy to swallow that hook, line, and sinker.
But, unfortunately, a teeny little thing called reality is spoiling their fun. Grocery prices remain astonishingly high, housing is unaffordable, and jobs are vanishing. The first year of Trump’s second administration was “an exceptionally weak year by almost any standard” for workers, as per research by Hiring Lab.
