{"id":121164,"date":"2025-11-06T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121164\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:11:07","slug":"us-economy-at-risk-of-weakening-with-growing-gap-between-rich-and-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/121164\/","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":121165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,28997,4568,1951,219,85249,866,85248,1943,3508,27240,43262,111,139,69,3912],"class_list":{"0":"post-121164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-chipotle-mexican-grill-inc","10":"tag-earnings","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-ethan-allen-interiors-inc","14":"tag-federal-reserve","15":"tag-hilton-worldwide-holdings-in","16":"tag-inflation","17":"tag-interest-rates","18":"tag-jay-powell","19":"tag-moodys-corp","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-wealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}