Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?

It’s so much of what we’re hearing these days. The economy stinks, people are struggling, and with a presidential race underway, it’s circling back to a question Reagan asked before the election in 1980: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

We’re now residing in the second most expensive place to live in the country, so in a place where the cost of everything is so amplified, what do you use to gauge the economy, to tell if you’re better or worse off today? This week The Brooklyn Ink asked 17 people how they recognize economic change, and answers go from an optometrist’s office that notices fewer people buying colored contact lenses to a city consultant who isn’t on track to retire when he thought he’d be.

So how are you doing, and how do you make that measurement?

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