{"id":35292,"date":"2012-10-25T03:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/race_for_president_leaves_the_income_slump_in_shadows\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T03:09:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T03:09:01","slug":"race_for_president_leaves_the_income_slump_in_shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35292","title":{"rendered":"David Leonhardt&#8211;Race for President Leaves the Income Slump in Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes and government spending. Health care. Immigration. Financial regulation.<\/p>\n<p>They are the issues that have dominated the political debate in recent years and have played a prominent role in this presidential campaign. But in many ways they have obscured what is arguably the nation\u2019s biggest challenge: breaking out of a decade of income stagnation that has afflicted the middle class and the poor and exacerbated inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture \u201d\u201d about work, progress, fairness and optimism \u201d\u201d are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards. No question, perhaps, is more central to the country\u2019s global standing than whether the economy will perform better on that score in the future than it has in the recent past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/24\/us\/politics\/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxes and government spending. Health care. Immigration. Financial regulation. They are the issues that have dominated the political debate in recent years and have played a prominent role in this presidential campaign. But in many ways they have obscured what<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35292\">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":[39,40,582,149,133,597,593,151,596,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-us-presidential-election-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35292","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=35292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}