In Michigan’s Macomb County, uncertainty over ‘Bidenomics’

Transferring groceries from a Kroger shopping cart to his white SUV, Ernie Sambo pauses. “I think things are getting better,” he says. “I come to places like this and look at what’s on sale. They have a lot on sale.”

At the back of the store, past the aisles with 69-cent avocados and packs of 18 eggs for $1.49, Kirk Troutman is shoving empty cans and bottles into deposit return machines. “I’ll be fine,” says the former General Motors worker who retired earlier this year, “but there are a lot of people who are hurting.” One of them is his son, who has three young children and is about to get laid off.

Here in Michigan’s Macomb County, a swing county in a swing state, the economy looks one part strong and two parts uncertain. How it performs next year – and more important, how