By Margaret Sullivan, Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters, The Washington Post, April 10, 2022
The unemployment rate is at an encouragingly low point. Less than 4 percent of the labor force is actively seeking work. And the latest monthly Labor Department report showed another healthy spike in the number of new jobs — they’ve been steadily on the rise for many months in a row.
But if you ask regular Americans about the jobs climate, a surprising number of them seem to think the opposite is true.
This lack of knowledge matters. Political fortunes rise and fall in part on the health of the job market. As the Clinton 1992 campaign staff kept reminding themselves when gauging how to communicate with voters: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
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