{"id":35349,"date":"2012-10-28T21:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/while_the_cost_of_living_rises_middle_class_salaries_are_flat-lining\/"},"modified":"2012-10-28T21:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:15:51","slug":"while_the_cost_of_living_rises_middle_class_salaries_are_flat-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35349","title":{"rendered":"While the cost of living rises, middle class salaries are flat-lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The middle class has been caught in an economic vise, trying to pay 2012 prices with paychecks that haven&#8217;t grown since the good times went bust \u201d\u201d or even earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Across the nation, family income was down 8 percent last year from what it was in 2000. And in South Carolina, the median income last year was just over $40,000.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the lowest wages have been in the Palmetto State since 1985, according inflation-adjusted figures from the U.S. census.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/postandcourier.com\/article\/20121028\/PC16\/121029254\/1165\/while-cost-of-living-rises-salaries-are-flat-lining\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle class has been caught in an economic vise, trying to pay 2012 prices with paychecks that haven&#8217;t grown since the good times went bust \u201d\u201d or even earlier. Across the nation, family income was down 8 percent last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35349\">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":[39,40,101,582,149,133,600,597,98,593,129,585,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","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\/35349","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=35349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}