{"id":5480,"date":"2011-11-05T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2011-11-05T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T16:13:15","slug":"is-there-really-a-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/is-there-really-a-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there really a &#8220;1%&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1208\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?attachment_id=1208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/files\/2011\/11\/382990_10150921302665007_701765006_21165749_1744900142_n-500x281.jpg?resize=500%2C281\" alt=\"who are the one percent\" title=\"382990_10150921302665007_701765006_21165749_1744900142_n\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1208\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Where Does Your Income Fall On This Chart???<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Occupy Wall Street movement has made the phrase \u201cthe 99 percent\u201d the hottest new political buzzword. So just how different has the experience of the top 1 percent been from everyone else\u2019s over the past decade?<br \/>\nAs the chart above shows, when it comes to real-income growth &#8211; that is, after accounting for the effects of inflation &#8211; the difference is substantial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/\">Source:  Some radical anarchistic organization or something.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So yeah, there is, apparently.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[507,302],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1qo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}