Poll disagrees with Trump, says people better off today

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Donald Trump regularly tells his supporters that people are financially worse off now, at the end of President Obama’s second term, than they were years ago, but a Gallup poll published Wednesday disagrees.

The portion of adults earning less than they made five years ago now stands at 20 percent, the Aug. 3-7 survey found. In 2013, that number was higher, at 28 percent.

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