{"id":40576,"date":"2013-10-16T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pew_research_as_debt_limit_deadline_nears_concern_ticks_up_but_skepticism_p\/"},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:28:41","slug":"pew_research_as_debt_limit_deadline_nears_concern_ticks_up_but_skepticism_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40576","title":{"rendered":"(Pew Research) As Debt Limit Deadline Nears, Concern Ticks Up But Skepticism Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just two days to go before an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the nation\u2019s debt limit, 51% of the public views a rise in the nation\u2019s debt limit as \u201cabsolutely essential\u201d\u009d in order to avoid an Half View Debt Limit Increase as Essential, More than a Third Say it is Noteconomic crisis, while 36% think the country can go past the deadline without major problems.<\/p>\n<p>Public concern over breaching the debt limit deadline has risen only slightly from a week ago, when 47% said a rise in the debt limit was essential and 39% said it was not.<\/p>\n<p>Those who see no dire economic consequences resulting from going past Thursday\u2019s deadline are not only skeptical about the timing \u201d\u201c most say there is no need to raise the debt limit at all. Nearly a quarter of all Americans (23%) \u201d\u201c including 37% of Republicans and 52% of Tea Party Republicans \u201d\u201c believe the debt limit does not need to be raised at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2013\/10\/15\/as-debt-limit-deadline-nears-concern-ticks-up-but-skepticism-persists\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two days to go before an Oct. 17 deadline to raise the nation\u2019s debt limit, 51% of the public views a rise in the nation\u2019s debt limit as \u201cabsolutely essential\u201d\u009d in order to avoid an Half View Debt<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40576\">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":[39,40,50,209,670,582,589,595,592,149,168,119,617,600,597,616,593,151,618,599,669,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-stock-market","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576","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=40576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}