{"id":339,"date":"2011-11-21T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2011-11-21T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:39:00","slug":"americas-new-poor-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s new poor &#8211; CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-3445_162-57328305\/americas-new-poor\/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel\">America&#8217;s new poor &#8211; CBS News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Forsyth County&#8217;s rolling subdivisions near Atlanta, Easy Street seems to run forever. What recession? The average household here earns $88,000 &#8211; the highest in Georgia, 13th highest in America.<\/p>\n<p>But for more families here, prosperity is a pretense. The job&#8217;s lost, the savings are gone, and the big house is either in foreclosure or on its way. And just keeping food on the table is a struggle.<\/p>\n<p>So Forsyth&#8217;s newly-needy file into local food banks.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s GIVERS have become today&#8217;s TAKERS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People lost their jobs and went from great incomes to no incomes,&#8221; said Sandy Beaver, Sandy Beaver leads The Place, Forsyth County&#8217;s biggest non-profit center for social services. She calls those who visit The Place &#8220;the new poor.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsforamerica.org\/blog\/the-poor-you-will-always-have-with-you\">the poor you will always have with you<\/a>. But what <a href=\"http:\/\/cmhmd.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/how-do-you-say-economic-security.html\">if &#8220;they&#8221; are you<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s new poor &#8211; CBS News: In Forsyth County&#8217;s rolling subdivisions near Atlanta, Easy Street seems to run forever. What recession? The average household here earns $88,000 &#8211; the highest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;America&#8217;s new poor &#8211; CBS News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}