{"id":49840,"date":"2014-06-07T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49840"},"modified":"2014-06-05T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:57:00","slug":"some-more-indicators-of-todays-economic-good-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49840","title":{"rendered":"Some More Indicators of Today\u2019s Economic \u201cGood Times\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more indicators that our economic doldrums have \u2013 after close to 5 and a half years \u2013 turned the corner towards \u201cgood times\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fraction of those 18-34 years old still living with their parents: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/18-34-years-olds-living-with-parents-2014-6\">nearly one in three<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Teen unemployment rate in major US cities this summer: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/penny-starr\/summertime-blues-teen-unemployment-major-us-cities-tops-50-percent\">over 50%<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fraction of the US population using a USDA \u201cnutrition assistance\u201d program during the last 12 months: <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/usda-creating-1-9-million-research-center-devoted-to-changing-americans-food-choices\/\">about one in four<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fraction of US children \u201cliving in poverty\u201d: <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/ali-meyer\/1-5-children-live-poverty-us\">about one in five<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fraction of US households struggling with their mortgage and\/or rent expenses: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/over-50-of-americans-struggle-with-home-affordability-2014-06-03\">over half<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Percentage of Americans who&#8217;ve lost faith and say for them the &#8220;American Dream&#8221; is dead:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/04\/news\/economy\/american-dream\/index.html\">59 percent<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Oh, and we\u2019re also seeing another of those ObamaCare &#8220;spillover&#8221; effects: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/health-care\/doctor-shortages-aren-t-just-a-veterans-affairs-problem-they-re-a-nationwide-problem-20140602\">nationwide doctor shortage of 91,500 predicted by 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well done, Mr. President. A damn nice &#8220;recovery&#8221; &#8211; and in only 5 1\/2 years! <strong><em>Lassez les bontemps roulez!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few more indicators that our economic doldrums have \u2013 after close to 5 &hellip; <a title=\"Some More Indicators of Today\u2019s Economic \u201cGood Times\u201d\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49840\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some More Indicators of Today\u2019s Economic \u201cGood Times\u201d<\/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":[11,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-health-care-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49840","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=49840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}