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People report hearing more negative news about employment than they did in the mid t the past several months nship and negative media bias play a role.

Inflation also feels like a thing happening to people outside of their control.

Full employment does not address how prohibitively expensive some major pillars of our economy are.

The economy has se Americans ompression as low-wage workers have been ab Americans e advantage of the tight labor market.

That may cause some consternation for more middle- and upper-middle-class Americans.

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