The world continues to get better, but people consistently believe that it’s getting worse. Nearly 90 percent of respondents in a 2016 poll thought that global poverty had increased or stayed the same in recent decades, while just 1 percent correctly answered that global poverty had fallen more than 50 percent since 1990. With that kind of misplaced pessimism, it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on some of the ways the American economy improved on a grand scale over the last decade.
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