Why does American work feel so bad?
“‘JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!’ The exclamation was part of President Trump’s tweets last month, hammering home a promise that helped get him elected. But the unemployment rate is (and was before the election) between 4 and 5% which many economists consider full employment. The U.S. had a record 75 straight months of job growth under President Obama. The poverty rate has decreased from 19% in 1964 to 13.5% in 2015, according to the Census Bureau. So why do American workers feel worse off? Why does lamenting the state of work seem right?”