Are You Bracing For a Wave of Unemployment? Why Economists Aren’t Sounding the Alarm

Is the job market going to fall apart in the coming year? Experts and the public sharply disagree on the outlook. Consumers are getting remarkably pessimistic about their job-finding prospects—44.4% of U.S. adults believe the unemployment rate will be higher a year from now, according to The Federal Reserve Bank of New York...