Despite the Biden administration’s furious denials, an increasing share of the American public thinks the U.S. economy is in a recession.
The share of Americans who say the country is in a recession rose to 61 percent recent, polling data from the Economist and YouGov indicates. That is up from 57 percent a month ago.
Last week, Presdident Joe Biden went all out to play down the Commerce Department’s report that the economy had contracted for a second consecutive quarter, a popular definition of a recession.
Biden cited very low unemployment rates to defend his management of the nation’s economic affairs. The unemployment rate in June was 3.6 percent.
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“That doesn’t sound like a recession to me,” Biden said.
A broad range of Americans
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