Gloomy Americans give Biden low marks
on Afghanistan, COVID and economy
Posted By: NorthernDog, 9/7/2021 8:54:59 AM
The mood of the nation is dark. You can see it in the University of Michigan consumer confidence index, which plunged to 70.3 in August, down 11.0 points from July. That’s down to levels not seen since the Great Recession. The gloom is apparent in retail sales, which slid more than one percent in July from the prior month, the second drop in the past three months. It’s also showing up in President Joe Biden’s collapsing approval ratings, which have turned negative; that’s not shocking given that 61% of the nation thinks we are on the wrong track, according to
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There’s an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal today about the declining enrollment of men in 2 and 4-year colleges. This gender enrollment disparity is a trend that has been happening for a while now, but at this point the divergence between men and women is becoming pretty dramatic.
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He's failing on all fronts.