{"id":2528,"date":"2008-06-17T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/think-progress-will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T23:35:33","slug":"think-progress-will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/think-progress-will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress &raquo; Will: Americans are economically better off today than they were eight years ago."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:31C7882A-CF45-4fcc-A614-7A5A52E598FF:977dbd7d-57c2-4fc5-a18e-457d5b224429\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/ink205835169680.png\" title=\"Ink Generated with Ink Blog Plugin\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mine\">peace, <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/16\/will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Will: Americans are economically better off today than they were eight years ago.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In a USA Today\/Gallup poll released earlier this month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/election2008\/2008-06-02-poll_N.htm\">a record number of Americans<\/a> \u2014 55 percent \u2014 said that their families are worse off financially than they were a year ago. But conservative columnist George Will thinks these people are just misinformed. <strong>On ABC\u2019s This Week yesterday, Will brazenly claimed that average Americans \u201care <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/06\/15\/george-will-on-this-week-who-are-you-gonna-believe-me-or-your-lying-bank-account\/\"><strong>better off today than they were in 2000-2001<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u201d<\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/06\/16\/will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Will: Americans are economically better off today than they were eight years ago.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>peace, mjh Think Progress \u00bb Will: Americans are economically better off today than they were eight years ago. In a USA Today\/Gallup poll released earlier this month, a record number of Americans \u2014 55 percent \u2014 said that their families are worse off financially than they were a year ago. But conservative columnist George Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/think-progress-will-americans-are-economically-better-off-today-than-they-were-eight-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Think Progress &raquo; Will: Americans are economically better off today than they were eight years ago.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}