CNN Your Money August 19, 2012
it's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy, and it has fallen steadily from a far more healthy 4% in the final quarter of last year to a very sluggish 1.5% in most recent readings. those figures are consistent with how americans are feeling. a recent cnn-orc poll, you see it here. it found that 63% of respondented say the economy is doing poorly. that's an increase of 6% from april. jobs, nothing is more important to our recovery than creating jobs. unemployment remains high at 8.3%, but the even more important number that you should look at each month in this r...