State of Union in 2016: Strong Job Market, Middling Economy

President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night to a nation whose economy is far sturdier than it was when he took office in 2009.

Yet as 2016 begins, the stout job market is accompanied by tepid economic growth and stubbornly flat wages. More broadly, two things are on the rise, to the president's dismay: global temperatures and Americans' concerns about terrorism.