{"id":4436,"date":"2013-09-19T00:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T04:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2013-09-19T00:18:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T04:18:27","slug":"a-look-at-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/a-look-at-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s focus is on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/supportyourlocalgunfighter.com\/2013\/09\/were-gonna-party-like-its-1989\/\">these numbers from a recent US Federal Census report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/income_wealth\/cb13-165.html\">Census Bureau report<\/a>\u00a0released on Tuesday reveals that the typical American family now earns less than it did in 1989. In 1989, median household income was $51,681 (in current dollars). In 2012, median household income was $51,017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Poverty levels in 2012 also climbed to 46.5 million Americans\u201315% of the country\u2013from 46.2 million in 2011. As Washington Post economics writer Neil Irwin put it, \u201cThis isn\u2019t a lost decade for economic gains for Americans. It is a lost generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. \u00a0This is the direction our Dear Leader is taking us. \u00a0He has prosperity stuck in reverse and is determined to stay the course.<\/p>\n<p>The last Recession ended in mid-2009, but we are still waiting for the recovery that typically follows the end of a recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s focus is on\u00a0these numbers from a recent US Federal Census report. A\u00a0Census Bureau report\u00a0released on Tuesday reveals that the typical American family now earns less than it did in 1989. In 1989, median household income was $51,681 (in current dollars). In 2012, median household income was $51,017. Poverty levels in 2012 also climbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,50,52,19],"tags":[140,262,294,414,574,621,839],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-obama-economy-politics","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrat","tag-economy","tag-incompetent","tag-obama-economy","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-19y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}