{"id":43744,"date":"2014-04-23T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_the_american_middle_class_is_no_longer_the_worlds_best_off\/"},"modified":"2014-04-23T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T21:29:47","slug":"nyt_the_american_middle_class_is_no_longer_the_worlds_best_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43744","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World\u2019s Best Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction.<\/p>\n<p>While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades.<\/p>\n<p>After-tax middle-class incomes in Canada \u201d\u201d substantially behind in 2000 \u201d\u201d now appear to be higher than in the United States. The poor in much of Europe earn more than poor Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/23\/upshot\/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the front page of today&#8217;s NY Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43744\">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":[39,40,175,582,149,168,119,600,597,593,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43744","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=43744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}