{"id":126270,"date":"2025-11-07T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126270\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T05:17:07","slug":"us-economy-at-risk-of-weakening-with-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126270\/","title":{"rendered":"US Economy at Risk of Weakening With Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The surprising resilience of the US economy this year is masking underlying weakness among low- and middle-income households, as higher-income Americans continue to drive growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">This dichotomy between the haves and have-nots isn\u2019t new, but the economic strain is now bleeding from the lowest earners to the middle class, creating an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-09-17\/the-recession-is-already-happening-for-many-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">even starker divide<\/a> that some economists say makes the economy more susceptible to a downturn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The surprising resilience of the US economy this year is masking underlying weakness among low- and middle-income households,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,71606,222,4990,113,74413,1961,74412,61,1095,5232,60,24159,21206,5766],"class_list":["post-126270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chipotle-mexican-grill-inc","tag-earnings","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-ethan-allen-interiors-inc","tag-federal-reserve","tag-hilton-worldwide-holdings-in","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-interest-rates","tag-ireland","tag-jay-powell","tag-moodys-corp","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}