{"id":158,"date":"2010-10-25T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2010-10-25T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T18:09:06","slug":"more-from-david-cay-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"More from David Cay Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to get into the habit of reading <a href=\"http:\/\/tax.com\/taxcom\/taxblog.nsf\/Profiles\/DavidCayJohnston?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Johnston <\/a>more regularly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he is a goldmine of real data.\u00c2\u00a0 In this article, he asks a simple question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What percentage of wealth in America is owned by the poorest 40 percent <\/em>[that&#8217;s 120 million of us]<em>?  Wealth, or net worth, means all property of value, from cash to art to  stocks and bonds to homes, minus debts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Write down your answer before going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/tax.com\/taxcom\/taxblog.nsf\/Permalink\/UBEN-8A6TUW?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> &#8212; and prepare to be shocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got to get into the habit of reading Johnston more regularly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he is a goldmine of real data.\u00c2\u00a0 In this article, he asks a simple question: What percentage of wealth in America is owned by the poorest 40 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.halepassage.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}