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More on the Economy

Curious why public perception of Bush's economic policies is still poor despite the 1.4 million jobs added in the last ten months? This article has some answers:

Something has plainly broken down in the American job creation machine. The supply of new jobs has been nowhere near sufficient to keep up with the supply of new workers—not for the past three years and not for the past 10 months.

Not only that, but "real wage growth has been decelerating since the end of 2001" according to this post. As Ruy Texaira writes, "[t]rust the people: they know what they're experiencing."