{"id":287912,"date":"2011-03-02T22:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/02\/how-the-economy-is-really-doing\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:01:14","slug":"how-the-economy-is-really-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/02\/how-the-economy-is-really-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"How the economy is really doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"37.7586206897\"><!-- \/imgRelatedsContainer* --><!-- DATA FIELDS --><\/p>\n<p><b>SCORE:<\/b> <b>2.8*<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/DATA FIELDS --><\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s unemployment rate currently stands at 9% (2010 average: 9.6%), or nearly two-and-a-half times what it was at the peak of the tech boom in April 2000. Perhaps worse news is that nearly half of those out of work have been jobless at least six months, a record number. These are definitely not feel-good statistics. <\/p>\n<p>By Ali Velshi and Erica Fink<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/galleries\/2011\/news\/economy\/1102\/gallery.economy_indicators.moneymag\/2.html\">NEXT: Income<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/MZ83qeekC78\/index.html\" title=\"How the economy is really doing\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How the economy is really doing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> SCORE: 2.8* The nation&#8217;s unemployment rate currently stands at 9% (2010 average: 9.6%), or nearly two-and-a-half times what it was at the peak of the tech boom in April 2000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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