{"id":92133,"date":"2026-01-01T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92133"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T13:55:45","slug":"more-than-75-of-middle-class-households-in-the-twin-cities-are-able-to-afford-necessities-such-as-housing-food-transportation-child-care-and-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92133","title":{"rendered":"\u201cmore than 75% of middle-class households in the Twin Cities are able to afford necessities such as housing, food, transportation, child care and health care\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/twin-cities-middle-class-cant-afford-essential-necessity-cost-living-housing-food-health-child-care\/601544320\">https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/twin-cities-middle-class-cant-afford-essential-necessity-cost-living-housing-food-health-child-care\/601544320<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomists typically define the middle class as the middle 60% of earners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our definition of \u201cmiddle class\u201d is so dumb it makes me despair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a lot of our history, you could afford basic necessities \u2014 at least in terms of food, housing, child care \u2014 within that distribution,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so getting closer to understanding. Still so slow\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/twin-cities-middle-class-cant-afford-essential-necessity-cost-living-housing-food-health-child-care\/601544320 \u201cEconomists typically define the middle class as the middle 60% of earners.\u201d Our definition of \u201cmiddle class\u201d is so dumb it makes me despair. \u201cFor a lot of our history, you could afford basic necessities \u2014 at least in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92134,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92133\/revisions\/92134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}