{"id":2426058,"date":"2025-05-27T14:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/?p=2426058"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:54:42","slug":"the-middle-class-is-collapsing-nearly-1-out-of-every-4-americans-is-now-functionally-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/2025\/05\/27\/the-middle-class-is-collapsing-nearly-1-out-of-every-4-americans-is-now-functionally-unemployed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle Class Is Collapsing: Nearly 1 Out Of Every 4 Americans Is Now \u201cFunctionally Unemployed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you are \u201cfunctionally unemployed\u201d? \u00a0If so, you are definitely not alone. \u00a0There are lots of people out there that cannot pay the bills each month even though they have jobs. \u00a0In fact, there are lots of people out there that literally cannot afford to put a roof over their heads even though they are employed. \u00a0Yes, there are many hard working Americans that are now living in their vehicles or in \u201ctent communities\u201d because that is all they can afford. \u00a0In recent years, the cost of living has been rising much faster than paychecks have, and so now a substantial percentage of the population is living <a href=\"https:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/financial-stress-is-at-an-all-time-high-for-70-percent-of-americans\/\">in a state of constant financial stress<\/a>. \u00a0The middle class has been collapsing all around us, and we are witnessing an extraordinary amount of economic suffering all over the country right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\">The post <a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/the-middle-class-is-collapsing-nearly-1-out-of-every-4-americans-is-now-functionally-unemployed\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Middle Class Is Collapsing: Nearly 1 Out Of Every 4 Americans Is Now \u201cFunctionally Unemployed\u201d<\/a> was first published by Michael Snyder on <a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Economic Collapse Blog<\/a> and is republished here with his permission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=ZE5PZEB7DQRHA&source=url\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please support his efforts.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever feel like you are \u201cfunctionally unemployed\u201d? \u00a0If so, you are definitely not alone. \u00a0There are lots of people out there that cannot pay the bills each month even though they have jobs. \u00a0In fact, there are lots of people out there that literally cannot afford to put a roof over their heads &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":2426060,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-2426058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news-politics","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426059,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426058\/revisions\/2426059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monetizemail.com\/magatoon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}