Quick fact check of Obama's State of the Union Speech

The U.S. may not have "risen from recession" quite as rousingly as President Barack Obama suggested in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Household income hasn't recovered and healthy job growth is complicated by lower paychecks. It's always problematic when a president takes credit for an improving economy, just as it is when he's blamed for things going bad. A leader can only do so much, for better or worse, and there are two sides to every economy. But after an election in which Obama largely held off on chest-beating, he claimed credit in bold terms for what is going right.