When Mr. Trump took over the Oval Office in January 2017, almost everyone in DC was against him. He still managed to make moves that created one of the strongest economic recoveries for regular Americans in U.S. history. The plandemic stopped it in its tracks, and then Biden and democrats derailed it.
Trump is back, and he’s doing it again.
There are plenty of reasons the economy shouldn’t be this good, but it has proven incredibly resilient. Despite the so-called trade wars, tariffs, and the ongoing “overseas contingency operation” in the Middle East, the US economy is more than just ‘remarkably’ good shape.
Inflation, tamed for most of Trump’s presidency, remains stable, which is good news, but we’ve got great news.
Americans’ inflation-adjusted incomes rose and poverty declined in 2025, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve meets to decide whether inflation still requires higher interest rates.
Real median household income rose by 2.6% to $87,460 last year, the Census Bureau reported as part of a suite of data releases Tuesday. The poverty rate fell by a nearly half-point to 10.2%. The poverty threshold for a family of four last year was $32,970.
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A Census report released Tuesday found that between 2024 and 2025, median income grew among different racial demographics, with White households’ income rising 3.0%, 2.9% for non-Hispanic White households, and 4.8% for Black households.
According to the Census report, median post-tax household income rose by 3.1% from $73,760 in 2024 to $76,060 in 2025.
[T]he official poverty rate for children dropped to a historic low of 13.4% in 2025.
[T]he official poverty rate for Hispanic individuals dipped to a historic low of 13.9%.
Republicans and President Trump have been onshoring jobs and investment, fast-tracking reliable energy development, and Americans are beginning to feel the benefits of making the 2017 tax cuts permanent. Not tax on tips, new tax benefits for people on Social Security, and the Democratic Party not only wanted none of it, but they also screamed as loud as they could about how it would all fail. As if they had a clue about how to do anything but wreck an economy.
