NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF AMERICANS SAY TRUMP HAS NOT HELPED THEIR FINANCIAL STANDING

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BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW ON 11/4/19 AT 11:27 AM EST

Nearly two-thirds of U.S. voters said they are not better of financially since Donald Trump took office, a new poll of likely voters finds.

The October 2019 poll conducted by the Financial Times and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation found that 31 percent of potential U.S. voters reported being worse off financially since Trump took office in January 2017. An additional third of Americans surveyed, 33 percent, said there has been no change in their financial status under the Trump administration.

Just over one-third of those surveyed, 35 percent, said they were better off since Trump moved into the White House.

Overall U.S. economic data shows growth of the nation's gross domestic product by 1.9 percent in this most recent third quarter. And Trump has repeatedly touted consistent stock market gains since he's been in office. "All-Time High for Stock Market and all the Fake News wants to talk about is the Impeachment Hoax!" he tweeted Monday morning.

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https://www.newsweek.com/trump-presidency-helped-americans-financial-standing-poll-us-voters-1469625

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These are pretty big numbers. Whoever ithe Democratic nominee turns out to be should embrace Bill Clinton's 1992 mantra: "It's the economy, stupid."

[NCLefty]

1. Some guy on FB said his 401k was doing GREAT. I pointed out most people don't have savings in one.

[applegrove]

2. And that despite it being an employees market. When will wages rise?

Never if ceos have their choice. Business people are now complaining that potential employees are not showing up for second interviews or for work. Seems that bad way employees have been treated by bosses has undone civility between the two and now with the power in the hands of employees they are paying it back. And business owners are wondering "where has the civility gone?" Well they didn't call people back after interviews if they were not the winning candidate. They never gave out feedback. They ended unions wherever they could. They hired taskmaster bosses instead of genial ones. And now they wonder what is happening.