{"id":55727,"date":"2016-09-20T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/gallup_jim_clifton-the_invisible_american\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T20:22:33","slug":"gallup_jim_clifton-the_invisible_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55727","title":{"rendered":"(Gallup) Jim Clifton&#8211;The Invisible American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about a &#8220;recovering&#8221; economy. It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of The New York Times and Financial Times last week.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle class has fallen 10 percentage points, from a 61% average between 2000 and 2008 to 51% today.<\/p>\n<p>Ten percent of 250 million adults in the U.S. is 25 million people whose economic lives have crashed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/opinion\/chairman\/195680\/invisible-american.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about a &#8220;recovering&#8221; economy. It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of The New York Times and Financial Times last week. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s true. The percentage of Americans who say they are in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55727\">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":[39,40,50,209,582,589,149,168,133,600,597,593,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","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\/55727","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=55727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}