{"id":46111,"date":"2014-09-29T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_britain_caught_in_a_lost_decade_for_pay\/"},"modified":"2014-09-29T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:45:06","slug":"london_times_britain_caught_in_a_lost_decade_for_pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46111","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) Britain caught in a lost decade for pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201csqueezed middle\u201d\u009d is being forced to endure a lower standard of living more than a decade on from the credit crunch, keeping consumer spending growth below pre-crisis levels.<\/p>\n<p>The EY Item Club predicts that real take-home pay in 2017 will still be below the rate in 2007 because of subdued wage growth.<\/p>\n<p>The economic forecaster\u2019s report will make for uneasy reading for George Osborne as he prepares to address the Conservative party conference today, and it is compounded by further evidence from a free market think-tank of the existence of a \u201ccost of living crisis\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/business\/economics\/article4220754.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201csqueezed middle\u201d\u009d is being forced to endure a lower standard of living more than a decade on from the credit crunch, keeping consumer spending growth below pre-crisis levels. The EY Item Club predicts that real take-home pay in 2017<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46111\">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":[39,40,50,175,101,582,589,149,199,168,133,600,597,98,593,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46111","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=46111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}