{"id":91312,"date":"2009-12-09T16:20:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2009\/12\/09\/how-to-thrive-on-50-less-income\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T16:20:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:20:24","slug":"how-to-thrive-on-50-less-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/91312","title":{"rendered":"How to Thrive on 50% Less Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/files\/2009\/12\/3258378233_46ac9b316d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1718\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/inspiredeconomist\/files\/2009\/12\/3258378233_46ac9b316d-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Whether you\u2019ve been forced to take unpaid furloughs, reductions in pay (or increases in insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses) or find only one person in your household with a job instead of two, you\u2019re not alone in having to rediscover how to live on as much as 50 percent less in household income.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to Kenneth Couch, a University of Connecticut economics professor who studies worker pay issues, displaced workers who eventually find a job may experience pay cuts as much as 40 percent.<span> <\/span>It\u2019s no surprise the latest productivity numbers nationally are as high as they are; corporate America is getting more work out of their employees for the same or less amount of hours and, of course, paying those who do have a job less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What thousands of Americans have discovered is that you can actually thrive by getting by with less, a large part due to adopting a more sustainable approach to living and working, often, for yourself.<span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s a few approaches I\u2019ve discovered while writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopreneuring.biz\">ECOpreneuring<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruralrenaissance.org\">Rural Renaissance<\/a>, and Edible Earth:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/2009\/12\/09\/how-to-thrive-on-50-less-income\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more of this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inspiredeconomist\/com\/~4\/YplCUGw8f6g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you\u2019ve been forced to take unpaid furloughs, reductions in pay (or increases in insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses) or find only one person in your household with a job instead of two, you\u2019re not alone in having to rediscover how to live on as much as 50 percent less in household income. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91312","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\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}