More Americans say they heard news of unemployment rising than falling. What? Keep in mind the unemployment rate is 3.5% now, a 50-year low. and has been around that low for about a year. There are many things to be worried about in the US economy, but the labor market recently is not one of them. It’s great.

Wherever the negative news bias comes from media or the consumers of media, it’s worth noting that it’s not always been this way. In the 1960s when unemployment was low, more people heard about the low unemployment than high.