{"id":3775,"date":"2012-04-19T19:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2012-04-19T19:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:48:23","slug":"economy-killers-inequality-and-gop-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/economy-killers-inequality-and-gop-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy killers: Inequality and GOP ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman, Paul,\u00a0 Wells, Robin.<\/p>\n<p>America emerged from the Great Depression and the Second World War with a much more equal distribution of income than it had in the 1920s; our society became middle-class in a way it hadn\u2019t been before. This new, more equal society persisted for 30 years. But then we began pulling apart, with huge income gains for those with already high incomes. As the Congressional Budget Office has documented, the 1 percent \u2014 the group implicitly singled out in the slogan \u201cWe are the 99 percent\u201d \u2014 saw its real income nearly quadruple between 1979 and 2007, dwarfing the very modest gains of ordinary Americans. Other evidence shows that within the 1 percent, the richest 0.1 percent and the richest 0.01 percent saw even larger gains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\">www.salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.salon.com\/2012\/04\/15\/economy_killers_inequality_and_gop_ignorance\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krugman, Paul,\u00a0 Wells, Robin. America emerged from the Great Depression and the Second World War with a much more equal distribution of income than it had in the 1920s; our society became middle-class in a way it hadn\u2019t been before. This new, more equal society persisted for 30 years. But then we began pulling apart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}