Dissatisfaction over America’s economic performance dates to the Global Financial Crisis at the very beginning of the Millennial Crisis era. It can be summed up in the growing conviction that incomes will no longer rise for most people over the long run. By a two-to-one majority, Americans now believe the average family will see its standard of living decline over the next thirty years. Two-thirds believe their children will end up “financially worse off” than they are. (If compared to similarly worded questions asked in prior decades, this negativity has reached a postwar high.) In the past,
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