{"id":376574,"date":"2010-03-01T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:53:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:53:45","slug":"the-state-of-the-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376574","title":{"rendered":"The state of the recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So-so at best. By all, or a least most, accounts the national recession is over and recovery, however slow, is going on right now. Break that national figure down a bit and the picture changes dramatically. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/businessresource\/forecast\/archive\/economic-recovery-is-patchy-.html\" >Two-thirds of all states are still in a recession<\/a>. That&#8217;s a lot of people who just get frustrated and angry when told things have hit bottom and are now getting better. For a lot of Americans things are not getting any better just yet. And Nevada is alone as the the state with a still-shrinking economy.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>The national recession may be over, but not everyone feels the change.<\/strong> Some industries and regions continue to suffer. The tepid 3% pace of growth in this recovery means no rising tide lifting all boats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a handy chart outlining who&#8217;s still feeling the pain:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiplinger.com\/kipimages\/story_pics\/usa_map.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6896\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6896&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-so at best. By all, or a least most, accounts the national recession is over and recovery, however slow, is going on right now. Break that national figure down a bit and the picture changes dramatically. Two-thirds of all states are still in a recession. That&#8217;s a lot of people who just get frustrated and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}