{"id":535,"date":"2016-02-08T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/?p=535"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:22:03","slug":"ignoring-the-root-of-the-problem-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/2016\/02\/08\/ignoring-the-root-of-the-problem-the-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring the root of the problem \/\/ The Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After reading Mimi Teixeira\u2019s Viewpoint article \u201cIs income inequality that bad?\u201d I was initially pretty shocked \u2014 Did the author really suggest\u00a0this issue, despite decades of literature on its effects in the United States, is insignificant? After all, Ms. Teixeira wrote, \u201cWhy does it matter how much the richest person in the country has, so<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"\/\/ndsmcobserver.com\/2016\/02\/94281\/\">Ignoring the root of the problem \/\/ The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An excellent response to an article that asked, &#8220;Is Income Inequality Really that Bad?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Mimi Teixeira\u2019s Viewpoint article \u201cIs income inequality that bad?\u201d I was initially pretty shocked \u2014 Did the author really suggest\u00a0this issue, despite decades of literature on its effects in the United States, is insignificant? After all, Ms. Teixeira &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/2016\/02\/08\/ignoring-the-root-of-the-problem-the-observer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/connie-snyder-mick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}