{"id":55669,"date":"2016-09-15T20:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_a_rebounding_economy_remains_fragile_for_many\/"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:21:38","slug":"nyt_a_rebounding_economy_remains_fragile_for_many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55669","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A Rebounding Economy Remains Fragile for Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eye-popping improvement in economic fortunes last year raises the question: If incomes are up and poverty is down, why is Donald J. Trump\u2019s message of economic decay resonating so broadly?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is in plain sight. While the economy finally is moving in the right direction, the real incomes of most American households still are smaller than in the late 1990s. And large swaths of the country \u201d\u201d rural America, industrial centers in the Rust Belt and Appalachia \u201d\u201d are lagging behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ain\u2019t feeling too much of all that economic growth that I heard was going on, patting themselves on the back,\u201d\u009d said Ralph Kingan, the mayor of Wright, Wyo. \u201cIt ain\u2019t out in the West.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/15\/business\/economy\/census-poverty-income-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-share\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eye-popping improvement in economic fortunes last year raises the question: If incomes are up and poverty is down, why is Donald J. Trump\u2019s message of economic decay resonating so broadly? The answer is in plain sight. While the economy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55669\">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":[40,50,209,175,149,168,671,600,597,593,151,596,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-federal-reserve","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","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\/55669","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=55669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}