>When asked about their finances, 74 percent of adults said they were either doing okay or living comfortably in 2017—over 10 percentage points more than in the first survey in 2013.
>Individuals of all education levels have shared in the improvement over the past five years, though the more educated still report greater well-being than those less educated.
>Three in five urban residents describe the economy in their local community as good or excellent ver- sus two in five rural residents who offer this posi- tive of an assessment of local conditions.
Etc. Far less bleak when one focuses on the whole picture. But don't let that stop wapo et al. from implicating Trump while trotting out predictable sob stories about people who spent half their lives pursuing 3 uneconomical degrees, had 3 more kids than they could afford, in cities with some of the highest costs of living in the world, and now complain that they're living paycheck to paycheck.
I'm getting really tired of the agenda based fear mongering by wapo, huffpo, and the like. Trust in media is rightly at an all time low[1].
1.https://medium.com/trust-media-and-democracy/10-reasons-why-...