And the stock market continues to regularly hit record highs.īut those numbers belie the more painful story, the one playing out here and across America.
Employment nationally has more than recovered for those making more than $60,000 per year. The country’s personal savings rate remains higher than it’s been in nearly a half-century. Some are, sure - at least in an economic sense. Are Americans thriving anywhere in this country, nine months into a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands, stripped millions more of their jobs and livelihoods, wiped out our small businesses and sent our kids home from school?
