# New data on jobs, housing signal no recovery near- AP
# AP Poll: After Obama's 100 days, US on right track- AP
AP Poll: At Obama's 100-day mark, people say for first time in years that US is on right track
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of people jobless. Billions of dollars in bailouts. Trillions of dollars in U.S. debt. And yet, for the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is on the right track.
The "right direction" number is up 8 points since February and a remarkable 31 points since October, the month before Obama's election.
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And yet, this is the first time since January 2004 than an AP survey found more "right direction" than "wrong direction" respondents. That fleeting 2004 burst of optimism came shortly after the capture of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Even as he briefly closed the nation's banks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke in the first days of his presidency of the "confidence and courage" needed to fix the U.S. economy. "Together we cannot fail," he declared.