{"id":24683,"date":"2018-02-01T12:38:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24683"},"modified":"2018-02-12T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T21:25:01","slug":"image-of-the-day-good-news-on-middle-class-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24683\/image-of-the-day-good-news-on-middle-class-shrinkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Good News on Middle-Class Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often hear lamentations regarding the shrinking U.S. middle class, and toxic prescriptions from people like <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/25\/news\/economy\/bernie-sanders-middle-class\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> on how to &#8220;save&#8221; it.\u00a0 Courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/scontent.fphx1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/27173935_10156244413258958_5111949849307961537_o.png?oh=db9f048892e39572abbf2220529929ae&amp;oe=5ADC8273\" target=\"_blank\">American Enterprise Institute<\/a>, using U.S. Census data, that shrinkage has actually been a largely positive thing:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"Middle Class Moves Up\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fphx1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t31.0-8\/27173935_10156244413258958_5111949849307961537_o.png?oh=db9f048892e39572abbf2220529929ae&amp;oe=5ADC8273\" alt=\"Middle Class Moves Up\" width=\"753\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another testament to how America remains the Land of Opportunity, and that Ronald Reagan&#8217;s famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/reagans-farewell-address-at-25\/\" target=\"_blank\">optimism<\/a> remains applicable today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often hear lamentations regarding the shrinking U.S. middle class, and toxic prescriptions from people like Senator Bernie Sanders on how to &#8220;save&#8221; it.\u00a0 Courtesy of American Enterprise Institute, using U.S. Census data, that shrinkage has actually been a largely positive thing: It&#8217;s another testament to how America remains the Land of Opportunity, and that [&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":[19,1119],"class_list":["post-24683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-middle-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683","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=24683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24701,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24683\/revisions\/24701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}