{"id":49270,"date":"2015-04-08T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ibd_42_of_all-respondents_still_say_u-s-_is_in_recession_in_april\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:00:30","slug":"ibd_42_of_all-respondents_still_say_u-s-_is_in_recession_in_april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49270","title":{"rendered":"(IBD) 42% of all&#8230;.respondents still say U.S. is in recession in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil-related job cuts may start to slow: Energy firms announced plans to lay off 1,279 workers in March, down from 16,000 in February. But for oil patch states, other questions remain: the health of the service economy surrounding energy firms, the reliability of tax revenues, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Some of that uncertainty may be trickling through to the broader economy. Some 42% of all IBD\/TIPP respondents still say the U.S. is in a recession in April, nearly six years after the economic recovery began.<\/p>\n<p>Yet recent data has been fitful, making it hard to get a clear read on whether the economy is turning down or just taking a beating from temporary factors \u201d\u201d the oil price plunge, severe winter weather, and the West Coast ports labor slowdown, for example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/economy-ibdtipp-economic-optimism-index\/040715-746641-economic-optimism-falls-in-in-oil-energy-boom-states.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil-related job cuts may start to slow: Energy firms announced plans to lay off 1,279 workers in March, down from 16,000 in February. But for oil patch states, other questions remain: the health of the service economy surrounding energy firms,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49270\">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":[39,40,175,582,589,149,168,600,597,129,596,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-psychology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49270","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=49270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}