Prices, unemployment up: Even Fox News poll shows voters think Trump screwed economy [View all]
· Grocery prices, inflation and unemployment have risen eight months into Donald Trump's second term.
· Farmers face labor shortages and export losses due to the administration's tariffs and deportation policies.
· Long-term unemployment has reached a post-pandemic high, and consumer confidence has dropped.
· A recent Fox News poll indicates more voters believe the Trump administration has worsened the economy.
President Donald Trump promised Americans a new Golden Age. But eight months into his second term, grocery prices are rising, along with inflation and unemployment. Long-term unemployment has reached a post-pandemic high. Farmers are struggling mightily to find workers and cope with massive export losses caused by the president’s sweeping tariffs. his is a weird-looking Golden Age. While billionaires and wealthy folks are clicking along nicely, the rest of us have yet to see a lick of good economic news. As Axios reported recently: “Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.”
Ground beef prices are up 13% over last August, beef steaks are up more than 16%, apples are up 9.6% and coffee prices have jumped more than 20%. Even egg prices – you know the thing that was a huge deal during the presidential election – are up almost 11% over last August. How is this possible? Trump said he’d fix food prices right away. He said he’d wipe out inflation. But Bureau of Labor Statistics data from August showed an annual inflation rate of 2.9%, the highest it has been since January. Jobless claims jumped dramatically in August to the highest level we’ve seen since late 2021. A University of Michigan survey recently showed another drop in consumer confidence, which is now down 21% from a year ago. The Washington Post reported: “For the unemployed, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find new work ‒ now taking an average of six months, a month longer than before the pandemic, according to Labor Department data. And for the first time in four years, there are more unemployed people in the United States than there are job openings.”
Trump inherited an economy from President Joe Biden that The Economist on Oct. 19 dubbed “The envy of the world.” He has proceeded to make things measurably worse for the average American on virtually every metric. High grocery prices and economic worries were the reasons many voters reelected Trump, a convicted felon. So one would assume there’s significant buyer’s remorse. One would be right. Fox News – yes, that Fox News – recently reported on the network’s own polling: “By a 22-point margin, a Fox News national survey finds that more voters say the Trump administration has made the economy worse (52%) rather than better (30%).” When the primary propaganda arm for your administration is saying your administration is screwing up the economy, it might be time to accept that you’re screwing up the economy.
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