{"id":4807,"date":"2023-11-28T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2023-11-28T05:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:11:01","slug":"cost-of-living-squeeze-visualized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"Cost of living squeeze: visualized"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">US prices in 2020 have shown the kind of growth that previously took 10 years: groceries and electricity have risen by a quarter, used cars by a third, and rent has added 20%, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>Goods and services that a family could afford on $100 in 2020 will now cost nearly $120.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures help explain why Americans continue to register strong\u00a0dissatisfaction\u00a0with the economy: Consumers\u2019 daily routines have largely returned to their pre-pandemic normal, but the cost of living has not.<\/p>\n<p>And the government data reports that show easing inflation are cold comfort, because they simply indicate prices are growing at a slower pace, not that they are returning to early 2020 levels.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t just mean they cost more. It means you earn less.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US prices in 2020 have shown the kind of growth that previously took 10 years: groceries and electricity have risen by a quarter, used cars by a third, and rent has added 20%, Bloomberg reported. Goods and services that a family could afford on $100 in 2020 will now cost nearly $120. Those figures help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}