{"id":18706,"date":"2013-08-28T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2013-08-29T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:04:39","slug":"the-obama-chronicles-contd-more-young-adults-living-with-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18706\/the-obama-chronicles-contd-more-young-adults-living-with-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Bad Dream: More and More Adult Americans Living with Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/archives\/families_households\/cb13-149.html\" target=\"_blank\">yet another statistic<\/a> to negatively distinguish Barack Obama and give form to his emerging legacy.\u00a0 Yesterday, it reported that the percentage of adults aged 25 to 34 living with their parents rose again despite the economic &#8220;recovery&#8221; now into its fifth year.\u00a0 In 2012, 13.6% of Americans in that age range lived with their parents, which was up from 13.4% in 2011.\u00a0 That compares with approximately 10% throughout most of the previous decade.\u00a0 So just as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">2 million fewer<\/a> Americans are working today than when the recession ended five months into Obama&#8217;s tenure in June 2009, more and more young adults consider it necessary to move in with Mom and Dad.\u00a0 Not exactly the change for which young voters hoped in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau, we have yet another statistic to negatively distinguish Barack Obama and give form to his emerging legacy.\u00a0 Yesterday, it reported that the percentage of adults aged 25 to 34 living with their parents rose again despite the economic &#8220;recovery&#8221; now into its fifth year.\u00a0 In 2012, 13.6% of Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4242,24],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-living-with-parents","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18713,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions\/18713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}