{"id":42666,"date":"2014-02-18T18:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_unemployment_rises_to_the_top_problem_in_the_u-s-_for_its_citizens\/"},"modified":"2014-02-18T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T18:15:53","slug":"gallup_unemployment_rises_to_the_top_problem_in_the_u-s-_for_its_citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42666","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Unemployment Rises to the Top Problem in the U.S. for its citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have a new No. 1 problem. Nearly one in four Americans mention jobs and unemployment as the most important problem facing the country, up from 16% in January. The government and politicians had topped the list since the government shutdown in October.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to last fall, either jobs or the economy had led the &#8220;most important problem&#8221; list going back to February 2008, and these two have regained their top spots in the Feb. 6-9 poll.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare continues to rank among the top problems, with 15% naming it, unchanged from January. Mentions of the federal debt\/budget deficit are stable at 8%, despite Congress&#8217; increasing the debt ceiling in February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/167450\/unemployment-rises-top-problem.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have a new No. 1 problem. Nearly one in four Americans mention jobs and unemployment as the most important problem facing the country, up from 16% in January. The government and politicians had topped the list since the government<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42666\">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":[40,50,209,175,589,149,168,597,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666","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=42666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}