The economic picture hasn't looked very rosy.

Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+6) Approve 36% (-5)

It’s no secret that Americans are frustrated by the economy: Consumer sentiment has fallen for four straight months to one of its lowest levels on record. Here’s a breakdown of who is feeling relatively good about the economy — and who isn’t.

Commentary: This Thanksgiving, wages are down for Ohio’s most common occupations. Farmers are struggling. Health care costs are surging. Rent, utilities, groceries and the cost of everyday goods due to the Trump tariffs, all surging. Ohioans are on edge ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/26/t...

The president of one of the United States' largest canned and frozen food importers and distributors said Tuesday in a video call with reporters that the most efficient U.S. food industry is being hit the hardest by tariff policies and rising costs. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/tarif...

A majority of U.S. Latinos have grown pessimistic since the 2024 presidential election and increasingly disapprove of the immigration and economic policies of the second Trump administration, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/26/r...

Please join me in prayers for the two grievously wounded West Virginia National Guard soldiers and their families. May God watch over them & keep them in this difficult time. Due to the courageous, immediate reaction by their fellow soldiers, the assailant was subdued

As Washington escalates pressure on Venezuela, any push for regime change risks becoming a costly, dangerous gamble — not the quick fix President Trump might hope for. n.pr/48aVmHq

What’s Thanksgiving really like on a military base? @markhertling.bsky.social tells @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social about the ice sculptures, the mess hall “wonderlands,” and the commanders in dress blues serving turkey to families.

Prices are up across your entire thanksgiving table and Jon Husted is a big reason why. Higher food costs. Higher travel costs. More flight delays. Ohio families are paying more while Husted keeps siding with his donors and corporations.

"My wife often says that every American should experience a military deployment sendoff, a welcome-home ceremony for units, and a memorial service for a young soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice." And a military Thanksgiving. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KixnOD

From axing West Point’s Black history program to gutting women’s support groups, Brigadier Gen. Ty Seidule (Ret.) says the environment for young officers is “extraordinarily hard.” He argues that those serving now are doing so in the toughest conditions in years.

As President Trump's call for National Guard deployments rings out across the U.S., a small contingent of Ohio guard members is quietly expressing concern in an encrypted group chat.

Carrie Almasi, director of assessment and planning at the Health Policy Institute, said certain groups of Ohioans face barriers that create opportunity gaps in equal healthcare access.

It's obvious that what the ACA is now is not what was passed. We could have worked in a bipartisan manner to practice continuous improvement but instead.... www.brookings.edu/articles/six...

The Netherlands and an unspecified number of NATO partner countries are pulling out of plans to purchase six U.S.-made Boeing E-7 Wedgetail surveillance aircraft following the United States' withdrawal in July from a multinational effort to replace the alliance's aging Boeing E-3A planes.

As President Donald Trump keeps saying an economic boom is around the corner, there are signs that he has already exhausted voters’ patience as his campaign promises to fix inflation instantly have gone unfulfilled.

OH15 stands out and not in a good way for small businesses and low-middle income families.

Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU

Congress has roughly two months to find bipartisan agreement to curb rising health insurance costs if lawmakers want to avoid another government shutdown ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/14/r...

The unemployment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds is 9.2%, its highest level since 2016. #EconSky

Foreclosures are now up 20% from last year as Americans struggle to pay mortgages and rising costs. Meanwhile… the U.S. now has a record $13.1 trillion in mortgages. A wave of foreclosures and evictions approaching. Here are the US States with the highest foreclosures. What do yo notice?

Empathy and supporting those in need is not a sign of weakness, they represent the strength of true American values.

Who imposed tariffs? Who cut immigration, destroying the ag workforce? Who undermined the Fed? Who halted renewable energy? Who's running deficits?

He campaigned on cutting the cost of living, but he has governed to raise it: regressive tariffs, immigration, fiddling with the Fed, cutting renewable energy, and firing the person whose job was to measure all of this.

(WSJ) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls likely shrunk by 50,000 roles in October, economists at Goldman Sachs said. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

US manufacturing contracts further in October; supplier delivery times lengthen reut.rs/4hJUC0u

Like many firms on Wall Street, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's hedge fund used a limited partnership to avoid Medicare taxes. Unlike the others, he’s now overseeing the IRS.

Representative Lauren Boebert, one of the Republicans pressing for more Epstein disclosures, was summoned for a meeting in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday. nyti.ms/3LCozUb

@radiofreetom.bsky.social wrote a whole book about "the death of expertise" and how unserious Americans falsely believe that they can and do know better, and JD Vance just... says it out loud...

Aguilar: “Donald Trump and Republican leadership are hell bent on keeping the Epstein files hidden from the American people…As recently as today, the White House was trying to switch GOP votes on the petition to continue these cover-up efforts.”

Families are receiving no more than 65% of their usual benefits, which means people will likely have to be more frugal at the grocery store. https://nbc4i.co/4qWOSoj?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.

Many food pantries in Ohio are seeing record demand as President Trump has resisted court orders to provide food aid to 42 million Americans ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/11/o...

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

BREAKING: Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls” in 2019 email, House Democrats allege youtube.com/shorts/Vke8h...

This is an absolutely shocking disclosure as the US House begins to once again govern and swears in the vote that will force the House to vote to release the Epstein files. “convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims”

Powell: "Higher tariffs are pushing up prices in some categories of goods, resulting in higher overall inflation."

News Analysis: It has been over a month since there has been a policy debate or vote on the House floor. Speaker Mike Johnson’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the government shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.

Rep. Chris Deluzio, an Iraq vet, called out Rep. Scott Perry for insulting service members. Perry claims that Democratic vets "hate the military" while voting AGAINST the PACT Act, which would have denied healthcare to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

The Pentagon is pissed about "A House of Dynamite," and claims its missile interceptors have a 100 percent accuracy rate. There's no such thing as a "100% accuracy." That's aimed squarely at Trump, so that he'll go ahead and dump money into "Golden Dome." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Proposed mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education have raised alarm among disability advocates and Democratic lawmakers over the potential impact on millions of students with disabilities.

A panel of US judges has rejected an effort by the Trump administration to delay court rulings on claims by veterans who say they have been unfairly denied disability benefits and other compensation @fpwellman.bsky.social @rogerzenaf.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“It’s almost absurd that this would be acceptable. And for what? There’s no military benefit. There’s no community benefit. It’s posturing with militaristic bluster at the expense of the safety and well-being of the community.” calmatters.org/politics/202...

Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics, an AP-NORC poll finds, after the key group helped his return to the White House.

Annual inflation picked up slightly to 3% last month in a report that came out nine days late due to the government shutdown.

Highest level of inflation since the last administration and much higher beef prices than any administration. abcnews.go.com/Business/inf...

New polls from Gallup, YouGov, and out of Virginia show voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the economy. Nationally, Dems now have a 4-point margin on the issue — an 18-point shift away from Trump since 2023. Time to update your priors www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-show...