{"id":43465,"date":"2014-04-15T06:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T10:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=43465"},"modified":"2014-04-15T06:20:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T10:20:13","slug":"all-hail-the-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43465","title":{"rendered":"All Hail the Economic &#8220;Recovery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Administration keeps telling us that the economy is recovering, or has recovered.\u00a0 So it must be true.<\/p>\n<p>Even if for only the second year in our history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/terence-p-jeffrey\/food-stamp-recipients-outnumber-women-who-work-full-time\">more people are receiving SNAP (formerly food stamps) than there are women working full-time today<\/a>.\u00a0 Data covers 1969-2012, as the Census Bureau&#8217;s report for 2013 containing the applicable data isn&#8217;t due out until September.<\/p>\n<p>The linked article has a graphic comparing the number of women working full-time vs the number of people receiving food stamps\/SNAP.\u00a0 Even during the Carter-era economic doldrums (1975-1981), the number of women working full-time appears to have equaled or exceeded the number of people receiving food stamps.\u00a0 As the linked article notes (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far, <strong>2011 and 2012<\/strong> are the only back-to-back years on record when the number of Americans taking food stamps outnumbered the women working full-time year-round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But remember &#8211; under our current Administration, the economic recovery continues!\u00a0 &#8220;Happy days are here again!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.\u00a0 If we had competent leadership that knew a damn thing about business and economics, we&#8217;d have had a <em>real<\/em> recovery by now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Administration keeps telling us that the economy is recovering, or has recovered.\u00a0 So it &hellip; <a title=\"All Hail the Economic &#8220;Recovery&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=43465\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Hail the Economic &#8220;Recovery&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}