{"id":31304,"date":"2012-09-14T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31304"},"modified":"2012-09-14T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T11:17:14","slug":"rich-poor-gap-widens-to-most-since-1967-as-income-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/rich-poor-gap-widens-to-most-since-1967-as-income-falls.html","title":{"rendered":"Rich-Poor Gap Widens to Most Since 1967 as Income Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Census Bureau\u00a0figures\u00a0released yesterday underscored the struggles of American families in a sputtering economic recovery. The report also showed the\u00a0income gapbetween rich and poor people grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011 as the\u00a0poverty rate\u00a0remained at almost a two-decade high.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeirdly, I think you\u2019re going to see both sides take these numbers and suggest it\u2019s evidence why \u2018I should be elected,\u2019\u201d said Steve Jarding, a lecturer at Harvard University\u2019s Kennedy School of Government and a former Democratic political consultant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-09-12\/u-s-poverty-rate-stays-at-almost-two-decade-high-income-falls.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; The U.S. Census Bureau\u00a0figures\u00a0released yesterday underscored the struggles of American families in a sputtering economic recovery. The report also showed the\u00a0income gapbetween rich and poor people grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011 as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31305,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304\/revisions\/31305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}