CNN Your Money August 18, 2012
take a look at these numbers. it's gross domestic product. the broadest measure of the economy. it has fallen steadily from a far more healthy 4% in the final quarter of last year to a very sluggish 1.5% in the most recent reading. and those figures are consistent with how americans are feeling. a recent cnn/orc poll, you see it here, what it found is 63% of respondents say the economy is doing poorly. that's an increase of 6% from april. and jobs, nothing is more important to our recovery than creating jobs. unemployment remains high at 8.3%. but the even more important number that ...