I hope you are right. What's important is "word of mouth" and personal experience.
But right now, I am not seeing it, neither personally, nor with any of my acquaintances throughout my state ( wages flat, few opportunities to go elsewhere ).
I don't see things getting worse, just not changing enough to keep up with the general increases of the "cost of living", which translates into apathy at the polls.
I’m in the same state you are.