{"id":33060,"date":"2013-05-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/austerity-and-debt-conspire-to-wreck-the-lives-of-working-american-families\/33060\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T20:30:00","slug":"austerity-and-debt-conspire-to-wreck-the-lives-of-working-american-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/austerity-and-debt-conspire-to-wreck-the-lives-of-working-american-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/41093717\/0\/alternet~Austerity-and-Debt-Conspire-to-Wreck-the-Lives-of-Working-American-Families\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/files\/styles\/thumbnail\/public\/story_images\/debt_prison.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"story_images\">\n      <!-- All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers --><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-image-sourcing\">\n<div class=\"story-image-source\">\n<p><cite>Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com\/Carlos Caetano<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><span class=\"field field-name-field-date field-type-date field-label-hidden\"><span class=\"field-items\"><span class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">May 8, 2013<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em> \u00a0|  <\/p>\n<div class=\"article_insert_container\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<div id=\"block-altsubscription-subscribe-node-inline\" class=\"block block-altsubscription first odd count-1\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"insert_ilikethis\">\n<p>Like this article?<\/p>\n<p>Join our email list:<\/p>\n<h3>Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.block -->\n\t      <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <!-- BODY --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The following is an excerpt from from  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/219148\/debtors-prison-by-robert-kuttner\"><em>Debtors&#8217; Prison<\/em> <\/a>by Robert Kuttner (Knopf 2013).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this, the fifth year of a prolonged downturn triggered by a financial crash, the prevailing view is that we all must pay for yesterday\u2019s excess. This case is made in both economic and moral terms. Nations and households ran  <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/41093717\/0\/alternet~Austerity-and-Debt-Conspire-to-Wreck-the-Lives-of-Working-American-Families\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families\">AlterNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com\/Carlos Caetano May 8, 2013 \u00a0| Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following is an excerpt from from Debtors&#8217; Prison by Robert Kuttner (Knopf 2013). In this, the fifth year of a prolonged downturn triggered by a financial crash, the prevailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}