{"id":39882,"date":"2013-09-04T02:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_for_workers_and_the_economy_autumn_could_be_scary\/"},"modified":"2013-09-04T02:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T02:48:03","slug":"washington_post_for_workers_and_the_economy_autumn_could_be_scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39882","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) For workers and the economy, autumn could be scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we seem to be entering another of those periods of elevated risk,\u201d\u009d economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote last week. Researchers at RBC Capital Markets sounded even more bleak. \u201cJust when you thought the U.S. economy was ready to break out of its lackluster 2 percent growth pace that has dominated the recovery,\u201d\u009d they wrote, \u201creality hits.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>More economic turbulence would be particularly tough for poor and middle-class American workers, who are still struggling amid the historically weak growth following the recession. The typical worker\u2019s income has fallen since the recession ended more than four years ago, and the economy, still far from full employment, is creating far more low-paying jobs than good-paying ones. Polls show that workers remain discouraged by the economic picture, with more than half believing the United States is still in recession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/for-workers-and-the-economy-autumn-could-be-scary\/2013\/09\/03\/26448f9e-118a-11e3-85b6-d27422650fd5_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we seem to be entering another of those periods of elevated risk,\u201d\u009d economists at Bank of America Merrill Lynch wrote last week. Researchers at RBC Capital Markets sounded even more bleak. \u201cJust when you thought the U.S. economy was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39882\">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":[40,175,670,589,149,168,617,597,616,593,151,667,618,587,596,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-budget","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39882","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=39882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}