Unhappy with the Obama economy, voters are buying what Trump's selling
Obama has overseen a remarkable turnaround in the jobs market, but with layoffs reaching a seven-year high, many have subscribed to Trump's narrative
In mid-March, while standing in a middle of a stage in Ohio, Hillary Clinton made a promise: "We're going to put a lot of companies and coal miners out of business. We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people."
The former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate was campaigning on her clean energy platform but may have come to regret that phrasing. Since September 2014, the mining sector has eliminated 191,000 jobs. About 7,000 of them were lost last month.
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