{"id":28357,"date":"2011-09-21T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_poll_economic_pessimism_deepens\/"},"modified":"2011-09-21T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:01:08","slug":"usa_today_poll_economic_pessimism_deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28357","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Poll: Economic pessimism deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; pessimism about the economy and its future is deepening, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, and they are increasingly willing to hold President Obama responsible for hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of 10 say the economy is in a recession, and nearly as many say it hasn&#8217;t improved over the past year. Even more ominous: Six in 10 predict the economy a year from now will be the same or worse than today, a downturn from the public&#8217;s views last year and the year before.<\/p>\n<p>That gloomy outlook, economists say, can become a self-fulfilling prophesy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2011-09-20\/poll-economy-obama\/50483094\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans&#8217; pessimism about the economy and its future is deepening, a USA TODAY\/Gallup Poll finds, and they are increasingly willing to hold President Obama responsible for hard times. Eight of 10 say the economy is in a recession, and nearly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28357\">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":[39,40,50,209,582,589,149,617,600,597,616,151,667,129,618,585,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357","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=28357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}