“An Uneasy Feeling” is the title of an op-ed by Bob Herbert in the New York Times. “Staggering numbers of Americans are still unemployed and nearly a quarter of all homeowners owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth,” he writes. “Forget the false hope of modestly improving monthly job numbers. The real story right now is the entrenched suffering (with no end in sight) that has been inflicted on scores of millions of working Americans by the Great Recession and the misguided economic policies that preceded it. . . . There was no net job creation — none — between December 1999 and now. None! . . . Middle-class families in 2008 actually earned less, adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999. The data for 2009 are not yet in, but you can just imagine . . . . One in eight Americans, and one in four children, are on food stamps. Some six million Americans . . . have said that food stamps were their only income. This is a society in deep, deep trouble and the fixes currently in the works are in no way adequate to the enormous challenges we’re facing.”