Our dismal April economic performance is even more alarming contrasted with the bullish US performance including 211,000 net new jobs, unemployment down to 4.4% (lowest in 10 years) and annualized wage increases at 2.5% (vs our .7%).  

Clearly, all the purple prose Globe editorials and political columns about our good fortune to be "up here" instead of "down there" in  political  and economic Trump purgatory must be true.

Unless, of course, you are one of those unfortunate souls not yet on the government payroll in one form or another.