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(WSJ RTE blog) Majority of Americans Say U.S. Still in Recession
The economy may be sputtering along. But it hasn’t been in recession for more than four years. More than half of Americans think it still is.
A majority of people ”” 54% ”” in a new McClatchy-Marist poll think the country is in an economic downturn, according to the survey conducted last week and released Tuesday.
One bright spot: July’s figure marks the lowest proportion of Americans who have held that view since 2008. About a third of those surveyed don’t think the economy is in a slump, while 8% are unsure, according to the poll. In March, 63% thought the economy was in recession.
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