Certain indicators are up relative to the start of the plague, stateside, yes. "Better" is a lot harder to say, there's a lot of really unusual shit going on right now. Inflation starting to stop being artificially and unhealthily low, workers agitating or walking off/refusing jobs, weird things going on with supply transportation and whatnot, major conflict staring down the barrel related to eviction and housing... it's kinda' hard to tell what the fuck's going on, and several groups are actively trying to distort perceptions of things (chucking around massive lies about available supplies and costs, gaslighting folks about recent price changes, etc.).
So, like. You can talk to two people in the same area and largely same economic situation and get wildly different opinions on if the economy's doing better or not, and the metrics used to measure them are currently wonky as hell relative to before the plague.
e: Like, just yesterday I was overhearing folks talking about the price of lettuce, reporting like 4 buck heads. I went and checked a place doing curbside and the price there was literally less than half what they were saying, with shops less than a hour distant from each other and largely serving the same demographics. In my experience it's up a little from a while ago, but not hugely. From their view the price has like friggin' doubled over the last couple years. These are people, same area, basically same financial situation, wildly different perceptions of the costs of even a single sort of produce.
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