President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the...

President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Dec. 17, 2014. Credit: Getty Images / Doug Mills-Pool

With 1 in 5 millennials living in poverty ["Millennials fare less well," News, Oct. 4], and workers' take-home pay declining since 1999, how can Barack Obama insist that the economy has improved and continues to prosper? What am I missing?

Ed Quinlan, New Hyde Park
 

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