Decline of Upward Mobility By MICHAEL GERSON

Republicans have spent years wondering when Americans would finally wake up and realize they are actually happy about the state of the economy.

A slowdown may now be in the offing, but that does not explain why the credit has never rolled in for six years of uninterrupted economic growth or the creation of more than eight million jobs since August 2003. Has an exhausting war overwhelmed the upbeat economic news? Has the public just been in a sour mood this decade?

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