{"id":120693,"date":"2023-05-19T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120693"},"modified":"2023-05-19T05:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T09:51:44","slug":"bloomberg-almost-90-million-american-adults-struggle-to-make-ends-meet-census-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120693","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Almost 90 Million American Adults Struggle to Make Ends Meet, Census Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More Americans struggle to meet expenses now than in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, when millions lost their means of employment, a Census Bureau survey showed. <\/p>\n<p>About 38.5% of American adults \u2014 or 89.1 million people \u2014 faced difficulty in paying for usual home expenses between April 26 and May 8, according to the latest Household Pulse Survey. That\u2019s up from 34.4% a year ago and 26.7% during the same period in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The Census Bureau collaborates with multiple federal agencies to compile the survey developed during the pandemic to collect data and measure household experiences to help inform federal and state governments. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-05-17\/almost-90-million-us-homes-struggle-with-expenses-census-says\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More than 90 Million American adults struggle to make ends meet, the Census says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mJgBnsYQ3V\">https:\/\/t.co\/mJgBnsYQ3V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1659321514825506818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Americans struggle to meet expenses now than in the immediate aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, when millions lost their means of employment, a Census Bureau survey showed. About 38.5% of American adults \u2014 or 89.1 million people \u2014 faced<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120693\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,209,149,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-personal-finance-investing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120697,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120693\/revisions\/120697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}