{"id":363,"date":"2014-10-21T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=363"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:46:13","slug":"19-very-surprising-facts-about-the-messed-up-state-of-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/19-very-surprising-facts-about-the-messed-up-state-of-the-u-s-economy\">19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are lying to you.\u00a0 The &#8220;economic recovery&#8221; that we all keep hearing about is mostly just a mirage.\u00a0 The percentage of Americans that are employed has<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"barely budged\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Employment-Population-Ratio-2014.png\" target=\"_blank\">barely budged<\/a>since the depths of the last recession, the labor force participation rate is at a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"36 year low\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Labor-Force-Participation-Rate-2014.png\" target=\"_blank\">36 year low<\/a>, the overall rate of homeownership is the lowest that it has been in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"nearly 20 years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/realestate\/la-fi-homeownership-rate-slides-20140729-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 20 years<\/a>\u00a0and approximately\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"49 percent\" href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/terence-p-jeffrey\/census-49-americans-get-gov-t-benefits-82m-households-medicaid\" target=\"_blank\">49 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans are financially dependent on the government at this point.\u00a0 In a recent article, I shared\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"12 charts\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/12-charts-that-show-the-permanent-damage-that-has-been-done-to-the-u-s-economy\">12 charts<\/a>that clearly demonstrate the permanent damage that has been done to our economy over the last decade.\u00a0 The response to that article was very strong.\u00a0 Many people were quite upset to learn that they were not being told the truth by our politicians and by the mainstream media.\u00a0 Sadly, the vast majority of Americans still have absolutely no idea what is being done to our economy.\u00a0 For those out there that still believe that we are doing &#8220;just fine&#8221;, here are 19 more facts about the messed up state of the U.S. economy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\"><strong>#1<\/strong>\u00a0After accounting for inflation, median household income in the United States\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4f809e; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"has declined a total of 8 percent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/09\/17\/upshot\/you-cant-feed-a-family-with-gdp.html?_r=1&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=0\" target=\"_blank\">is 8 percent lower<\/a>\u00a0than it was when the last recession started in 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; padding: 0px; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy. Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve are lying to you.\u00a0 The &#8220;economic recovery&#8221; that we all keep hearing about is mostly just a mirage.\u00a0 The percentage of Americans that are employed hasbarely budgedsince the depths of the last recession, the labor force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[236,244,834],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-economic-collapse","tag-economics-2","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}