{"id":43803,"date":"2014-04-27T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/w_post_middle-class_families_squeezed_as_expenses_soar_wages_stall\/"},"modified":"2014-04-27T21:30:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T21:30:50","slug":"w_post_middle-class_families_squeezed_as_expenses_soar_wages_stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43803","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) Middle-class families squeezed as expenses soar, wages stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Johnsons both work, earning $90,000 between them, not a princely sum but one that places the couple squarely in the middle of household incomes for the Washington region. But for the Johnsons and many other American families, being middle class means living paycheck to paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s retirement savings are meager. The college fund? Nonexistent.<\/p>\n<p>The Johnsons, whose blended family includes three children under 18, are part of a drawn-out, disquieting shift that is recasting what it means to be middle class in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/happy-days-no-more-middle-class-families-squeezed-as-expenses-soar-wages-stall\/2014\/04\/26\/f4a857f0-7a47-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Johnsons both work, earning $90,000 between them, not a princely sum but one that places the couple squarely in the middle of household incomes for the Washington region. But for the Johnsons and many other American families, being middle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43803\">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":[39,40,175,101,582,149,168,600,597,98,593,151,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","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\/43803","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=43803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}