{"id":917,"date":"2014-03-21T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-03-21T19:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T19:33:04","slug":"who-is-killing-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/2014\/03\/21\/who-is-killing-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is killing the American Dream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems every year I get poorer, even when I am making more money. \u00a0 Everything seems to be getting more expensive. \u00a0Housing, Cars, healthcare, food and school. \u00a0 Part of why I feel poorer is that the kids get more expensive every year.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder when, or even if, things are going to change for most people. \u00a0 Here is a couple of articles I&#8217;ve read in the last couple of days that are backing up what I feel. \u00a0I do feel that the really rich, that control the 95%, of the wealth continue to find ways to leach off more time and money from the 97% of the population that only have 1% percent of the wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the articles I read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/1gg1UqE\">Uneven Wage Gains Restrain Recovery\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/1nBYmD0\" target=\"_blank\">The Economic Roots of American Retreat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/on.wsj.com\/1gg1UqE\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems every year I get poorer, even when I am making more money. \u00a0 Everything seems to be getting more expensive. \u00a0Housing, Cars, healthcare, food and school. \u00a0 Part of why I feel poorer is that the kids get more expensive every year. I wonder when, or even if, things are going to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[80,32,44,79,82,81,83,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journal-entry","7":"tag-american-dream","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-journal","10":"tag-journal-entry-2014","11":"tag-poor","12":"tag-rich","13":"tag-wealthy","14":"tag-wsj","15":"entry"},"modified_by":"D. Gardner","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p32Jie-eN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deegardner.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}