‘Ominous Signs’ Loom Over US Economy — And Workers Still Struggle

But while the 3.7 percent unemployment rate the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) gave for June is certainly an improvement over the financial misery and devastation that Obama coped with in 2009 and 2010 during the worst of the Great Recession, there are some troubling signs in current economic data — and those signs are examined in recent articles published by the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Bloomberg News.Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders have both been complaining that most of the economic gains of the Trump era have gone to Americans at the top — and Heather Long, in the Washington Post, notes that 40 percent of Americans still say they are struggling to pay their bills. Long notes that although the “stock market is at record levels” and the current “economic expansion” is the longest in U.S. history, this is a “two-tier recovery.”