Cooling inflation, low unemployment, robust economic growth and… downbeat voters.
Despite indicators showing the US economy is moving in a healthy direction, many Americans remain pessimistic about business and job prospects — a mood that poses a frustrating problem for Vice President Kamala Harris in her neck-and-neck race with Donald Trump for the White House.
Less than a month before November’s presidential election, the US economy added around 100,000 more jobs than expected in September, saw wages grow further and inflation approach striking distance of policymakers’ two percent target.
Yet, almost half the respondents of a New York Times/Siena College poll released Tuesday rated current economic conditions “poor.”
Poll after poll has also found the economy — particularly inflation — to be a top voter concern by far.
While Harris has narrowed Trump’s lead, polls have suggested voters favor the former president on economic issues.
Economists point to a cumulative …