Obama helped bring back economy, restless voters chose Trump
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's first job as president: Piece together the shards of a shattered U.S. economy.
It wasn't smooth and it wasn't fast, but Obama ultimately succeeded.
The president will leave behind an economy far stronger than the one he inherited. Unemployment is 4.6 percent, a nine-year low. Stocks keep ascending to new highs. An additional 20.2 million Americans have health insurance coverage. The nation has shifted toward cleaner energy sources: natural gas, wind and solar.
But those achievements have yet to erase the scars of the 2008 financial crisis.
Polling after the November election showed that nearly two-thirds of voters described the economy as "not so good" or "poor." Those voters chose to pass the presidency to Donald Trump, a Republican who railed against a weak economy and promised to unwind many of Obama's policies.
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