According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy created 818,000 fewer jobs than previously reported between April 2023 and March of this year.University, says, generally, the economy is the number one issue motivating people to vote.Additionally, he says most people form their opinion based on these big, national economic stories rather than the local effects they may have.
“People look at the economic factors around them, at the large-scale, the macro-scale, the national-scale, and make decisions based off of that, even if it’s not affecting them as an individual,” said Gross. “We have large evidence that when unemployment increases, when the economy sees a slowdown, that voters tend to punish the current political party because of that.”
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