{"id":158,"date":"2009-09-25T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elegans.uky.edu\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2009-09-25T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T20:47:35","slug":"thats-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"The lost decade, or thanks for nothing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Census data on median income change between 2000 and 2008 by way of USA Today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/census\/2009-09-17-young-people_N.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"pics\/Median_income_2000-8_USAToday.png\" alt=\"Median income 2000-8\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bea.gov\/national\/nipaweb\/SelectTable.asp?Popular=Y\">GDP in constant dollars<\/a> per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/popest\/states\/NST-ann-est.html\">capita<\/a> grew 9.7% over this period, so the country grew 10% richer and if it was distributed evenly everyone&#8217;s income would have grown roughly 10%.  But not&#8211;instead most of the $$ went to a small slice of the population, and that doesn&#8217;t show up in this table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Census data on median income change between 2000 and 2008 by way of USA Today: US GDP in constant dollars per capita grew 9.7% over this period, so the country grew 10% richer and if it was distributed evenly everyone&#8217;s income would have grown roughly 10%. But not&#8211;instead most of the $$ went to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estimation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}