It's Bad, But Is It the Worst?

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Granted, the economy isn’t in great shape these days. But is it in “the worst shape you’ve ever experienced in your lifetime?” In a BIGresearch poll that posed this question, 62 percent of adults said it is indeed the worst they’ve ever endured.

It’s easy to see why the poll’s 18-34-year-olds would say so (as 66 percent did), since few had even approached adulthood when the last recession came and went. But the same opinion was held by 63 percent of the 35-54-year-olds and 58 percent of those age 55-plus.

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