{"id":549,"date":"2011-02-08T17:53:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T21:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:00:47","slug":"third-world-america-how-our-politicians-are-abandoning-the-middle-class-and-betraying-the-american-dream-by-arianna-huffington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-558 size-full\" title=\"Third Wordl America\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/third-wordl-america1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Written by the founder of The Huffington Post and popular liberal pundit, Third World America describes the effect our current economic climate is having on the middle class. Jobs are disappearing, our infrastructure is crumbling, education suffers, and middle-class Americans are described as &#8220;an endangered species.&#8221;\u00a0 Extremely readable, with many chilling examples of economic and personal loss, this book makes concrete suggestions for averting catastrophe. Liberals will love it and conservatives, while not agreeing with all her assertions, should find much of interest, too, as Huffington offers hope for difficult times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by the founder of The Huffington Post and popular liberal pundit, Third World America describes the effect our current economic climate is having on the middle class. Jobs are disappearing, our infrastructure is crumbling, education suffers, and middle-class Americans are described as &#8220;an endangered species.&#8221;\u00a0 Extremely readable, with many chilling examples of economic and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Third World America: How our Politicians are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}