{"id":56612,"date":"2016-12-07T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_a_bigger_economic_pie_but_a_smaller_slice_for_half_of_the_u-s\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T21:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:12:42","slug":"nyt_a_bigger_economic_pie_but_a_smaller_slice_for_half_of_the_u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56612","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A Bigger Economic Pie, but a Smaller Slice for Half of the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even with all the setbacks from recessions, burst bubbles and vanishing industries, the United States has still pumped out breathtaking riches over the last three and half decades.<\/p>\n<p>The real economy more than doubled in size; the government now uses a substantial share of that bounty to hand over as much as $5 trillion to help working families, older people, disabled and unemployed people pay for a home, visit a doctor and put their children through school.<\/p>\n<p>Yet for half of all Americans, their share of the total economic pie has shrunk significantly, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>This group \u201d\u201d the approximately 117 million adults stuck on the lower half of the income ladder \u201d\u201d \u201chas been completely shut off from economic growth since the 1970s,\u201d\u009d the team of economists found.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/06\/business\/economy\/a-bigger-economic-pie-but-a-smaller-slice-for-half-of-the-us.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with all the setbacks from recessions, burst bubbles and vanishing industries, the United States has still pumped out breathtaking riches over the last three and half decades. The real economy more than doubled in size; the government now uses<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56612\">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":[39,40,175,101,149,168,104,133,600,597,98,593,129,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-psychology","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\/56612","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=56612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}