1/Here are some economic facts to be thankful for this #Thanksgiving...
2/The unemployment rate is 4.4 percent - lower than it was before the Great Recession. 
3/The prime-age employment-to-population ratio is almost back to where it was before the recession.
4/Real wages for production and nonsupervisory workers are considerably higher than they were a decade ago.
5/Real median personal income has risen. and is higher than it was on the eve of the recession.
7/In fact, wage growth has been stronger at the bottom of the distribution at the top. theatlantic.com/business/archi…
8/The poverty rate is falling, even before accounting for government transfers. npr.org/sections/thetw…
9/But thanks to government transfers, child poverty is at record lows.
10/Inflation, meanwhile, continues to be low and steady.
11/And home prices have recovered from the crash.
12/Thanks to Obamacare, the number of uninsured America has fallen dramatically.
13/To sum up:
Americans are mostly working.
Wages and incomes are growing.
Poverty is down.
Middle-class wealth is recovering.
Health insurance is becoming universal.
There are still plenty of problems to be solved, but there's plenty going right.
Happy Thanksgiving! (end)
Americans are mostly working.
Wages and incomes are growing.
Poverty is down.
Middle-class wealth is recovering.
Health insurance is becoming universal.
There are still plenty of problems to be solved, but there's plenty going right.
Happy Thanksgiving! (end)
