Posted on 07/22/2021 5:34:05 AM PDT by JV3MRC
Viewers watching the ABC, CBS or NBC networks since Feb. 1 likely didn’t hear anything about a rising index indicating that Americans are worse off under President Joe Biden.
Issues & Insights released a report on the misery index, a measure started under President Lyndon Johnson that combines the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. The idea is that “joblessness and a fast-rising cost of living produces palpable misery in the country.” The measure spiked at “the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns, jumping from 5.94 to over 15 in one month with the surge in unemployment,” Issues & Insights said. However, “it quickly dissipated, as the economy under [former President Donald] Trump rebounded faster than the so-called experts had predicted.” By the end of Trump’s term, “the misery index was back down to 7.7.” But a “funny thing has happened since,” according to Issues & Insights. The misery index “climbed each and every month that Joe Biden has been president.” The misery index hit 11.3 in June, “higher than it has been (pre-pandemic) since the Great Recession. It’s also higher than the post-World War II average of 9.2,” according to Issues & Insights.
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“Misery Index”
What a great idea.
The Trump organization should initiate a statistically derived base line and then publish the Misery Index weekly.
They’re too busy talking about COVID.
The networks are the propaganda arm of the deep state. ‘Nuff said.
Rising “misery index?” Well, there are leftists in charge so that is no surprise. That is all the left is good for - spreading misery. Unless you’re one of the relatively few anointed ones we all suffer under leftist policies.
The Democrat Party Fake News Networks.
Biden and Harris and MSM have brain freeze.
Why should the networks report anything negative about Clueless Joe? Fake polls on Real Clear Politics has Joe at 58% approval rating and gaining.
bkmk
Now we are starting to know how the German people felt.
They know it exists, they’ve always known - and they will KEEP IGNORING IT.
ANYTHING and EVERYTHING, to help their komrades!!!!
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