{"id":4916,"date":"2010-04-22T12:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:38:11","slug":"labor-department-says-cost-of-living-fine-excluding-food-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4916\/labor-department-says-cost-of-living-fine-excluding-food-and-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Department Says Cost of Living Fine, Excluding Food and Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Department of Labor, the cost of living in America is humming along at an affordable rate, so long as <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=10445505\" target=\"_blank\">increases in the price of food and energy are ignored<\/a>.\u00a0 You read that right: <em>food and energy<\/em>.\u00a0 If there is a third category that every American uses more on a daily basis, let me know.\u00a0 Ignoring the continuing increases in the costs of food and energy to claim the economy isn\u2019t worsening for everyday Americans is like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/cps\/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed \" target=\"_blank\">calculating unemployment to exclude people who don\u2019t have a job and stopped looking<\/a>.\u00a0 Oh, wait\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Department of Labor, the cost of living in America is humming along at an affordable rate, so long as increases in the price of food and energy are ignored.\u00a0 You read that right: food and energy.\u00a0 If there is a third category that every American uses more on a daily basis, let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1154,195,1155,1072,18],"class_list":["post-4916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cost-of-living","tag-energy","tag-food","tag-labor-department","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4921,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions\/4921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}