(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)New data show economic anxiety among white Americans has evaporated in the age of Donald Trump, falling to levels last seen during the George W. Bush administration. The role of economic anxiety among working-class whites was widely debated in the wake of Trump’s election in 2016. Use of the phrase “economic anxiety” in American news coverage peaked in November of that year, according to the News on the Web database. As white economic anxiety has eased, African Americans are registering their highest levels of economic anxiety since at least 2000. The partisan divide in economic anxiety is sharp even among white respondents.

Source: Washington Post March 21, 2019 11:05 UTC