--- description: Why voters don't see the strength of the U.S. economy, how to fight the disease killing one person every six seconds and more. title: Why Voters Don't Believe the Economy Is Improving image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Why Voters Don't Believe the Economy Is Improving by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 12, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**The U.S. economy really is doing better. So why don’t voters believe it?**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-economy-is-better-why-dont-voters-believe-it/ "undefined") By Ben Casselman in FiveThirtyEight **2\.** [**One disease kills more people than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Here’s how to fight it.**](http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL8N1353ZF20151111?sp=true "undefined") By Ben Hirschler in Reuters Africa **3\.** [**Here’s why airline still don’t make money.**](http://priceonomics.com/can-airlines-make-money/ "undefined") By Alex Mayyasi in Priceonomics **4\.** [**India could be Africa’s perfect trading partner.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2015/11/10/india-and-africa-partners-with-potential/ "undefined") By Ashlyn Anderson at the Council on Foreign Relations **5\.** [**Here’s a digital piggy bank that teaches kids to manage their money.**](http://www.psfk.com/2015/11/smart-digital-piggy-bank-teaches-kids-financial-literacy-digital-currencies-ernit.html "undefined") By Vashti Hallissey in PSFK  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4109832/voters-dont-believe-economy-improving/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4109832/voters-dont-believe-economy-improving/"},"headline":"Why Voters Don't Believe the Economy Is Improving","datePublished":"2015-11-12T17:01:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:58.886Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4109832/voters-dont-believe-economy-improving/","keywords":["Innovation","Africa","Economy","Airlines","India","kids","diabetes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4109832/voters-dont-believe-economy-improving/","name":"Why Voters Don't Believe the Economy Is Improving"}}]}] ```