At his campaign rallies (for which we pay the Secret Service to guard his ass), Trump takes credit for the prosperity reflected in the stock market. News flash: the stock market is not the same as the economy.
Today’s front page headline in the Allentown Morning Call read: “Poverty rises in half of Pa counties.” The poverty rate grew in 30% of the nation’s counties from 2016-18. The poverty rate is the percentage of people in households earning less than the poverty threshold, $25,750 for a family of four.
Most of the counties across the country that experienced an increase in the poverty rate were rural. Many of them voted for Trump in 2016 and probably will again in 2020.
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