“So, you’re saying everything’s great now?”

These are the economic facts that Fox News and the like aren't telling your parents, relatives or right-leaning wannabe brownshirts/citizens. Armed with these, you are prepared to disabuse and educate those whose beliefs are delusional and set the stage for authoritarianism and fascism! Will they thank you? Probably not, their fantasy version of reality both scares them and makes them feel comfortable, strangely enough!

If you must argue about the economy over Thanksgiving dinner, at least get the facts right

Economic Policy Institute https://www.epi.org/blog/if-you-must-argue-about-the-economy-over-thanksgiving-dinner-at-least-get-the-facts-right/

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"The economy still has plenty of challenges and problems. We allowed a significant and compassionate expansion of the U.S. welfare state undertaken in response to the pandemic to roll back in 2022, causing a huge one-year rise in poverty (and particularly child poverty). Despite a pronounced upsurge in workers’ interest and activism about joining unions, we have not fixed the legal and policy roadblocks to protect this vital right. The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25, and in inflation-adjusted terms has hit its lowest level since the 1950s. Our care economy institutions are in near-crisis and need public investment. Tax rates faced by the richest households and corporations are at the lowest levels in decades.

On each of these issues, however, progress would be made if even a sliver of Republicans in Congress would get on the right side of these issues."