{"id":33029,"date":"2016-02-18T00:16:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=33029"},"modified":"2016-02-18T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:16:25","slug":"do-we-need-a-new-approach-to-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/do-we-need-a-new-approach-to-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Need a New Approach to Economics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For everyone but the top 1 percent of earners, the American economy is broken. Since the 1980s, there has been a widening disconnect between the lives lived by ordinary Americans and the statistics that say our prosperity is growing. Despite the setback of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy more than doubled in size during the last three decades while middle-class incomes and buying power have stagnated. Great fortunes were made while many baby boomers lost their retirement savings. Corporate profits reached record highs while social mobility reached record lows, lagging behind other developed countries. For too many families, the American Dream is becoming more a historical memory than an achievable reality.\u00a0New Economics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For everyone but the top 1 percent of earners, the American economy is broken. Since the 1980s, there has been a widening disconnect between the lives lived by ordinary Americans and the statistics that say our prosperity is growing. Despite … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t