A strong union, but a cultural rot

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President Trump will fulfill his constitutional duty Tuesday night to “give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union.” Before he does, let’s review, without the night’s pomp, circumstance, and political rhetoric, the actual state of the union.

The nation is strong if you look at our national economic indicators. The unemployment rate is 4.1 percent, the lowest since 2000 and lower than 97 percent of the time since 1970.

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