US Economy Is Doing Better Than Americans Think [Video]

President Joe Biden said earlier this year that the U.S. economy is “literally the envy of the world” after inheriting an economy he said was “on the brink” from predecessor Donald Trump.

“It takes time, but the American people are beginning to feel it,” he said during his State of the Union address in March.

But despite his positive outlook, more than one-third of Americans don’t agree. According to polling conducted exclusively for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 46 percent of Americans believe the economy is in a worse state than in January 2021, when Trump left the White House, compared to 33 percent who said it has improved. Fifteen percent of those 1,500 eligible voters surveyed on August 15 said that, in their eyes, the economy remains the same, while 6 percent said they didn’t know.

The poll also found a significant partisan skew in beliefs about the economy, with 68 …