To hear President Donald Trump tell it, you’d think the U.S. was in the worst shape since the Great Depression.

“It’s a mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country. You see what’s going on with all of the companies leaving our country. Going to Mexico and other places. Low pay, low wages.”

…When it comes to the U.S economy, though, that “mess” isn’t borne out by most measures.

Trump’s inherited ‘mess’ hard to find in economic data

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