{"id":495727,"date":"2026-02-24T06:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495727\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:38:19","slug":"did-canada-really-become-poorer-than-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/495727\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Canada really become poorer than Alabama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 9:25<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">Is Canada less wealthy than one of the poorest U.S. states? A Globe and Mail headline sparked debate over the weekend by saying the answer is yes. Economist Trevor Tombe reported in June that Canada&#8217;s wealth had dropped below Alabama&#8217;s in both 2023 and 2024, referencing data from the International Monetary Fund. Experts are challenging the claim&#8217;s accuracy. Power and Politics speaks with economist Mike Moffatt to make sense of that claim and why it is dividing experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"7 hours agoNewsDuration 9:25 Is Canada less wealthy than one of the poorest U.S. states? A Globe and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-495727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}