{"id":121139,"date":"2026-01-05T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121139\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:42:11","slug":"is-fresno-better-off-than-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121139\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fresno Better Off Than It Used To Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005, a national report revealed that Fresno contained some of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the country. Now, 20 years later, we wondered: have those economic conditions changed? In today\u2019s episode, we speak with KVPR reporter Israel Cardona Hernandez about how Fresno\u2019s economy has evolved in the last 20 years, how the situation feels for Fresno residents, and how local organizations are trying to turn the tide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2005, a national report revealed that Fresno contained some of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-121139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}