{"id":10245,"date":"2011-05-30T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2011-05-30T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T09:03:31","slug":"the-only-way-to-help-the-squeezed-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/30\/the-only-way-to-help-the-squeezed-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"The only way to help the &#8216;squeezed middle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/may\/30\/strategy-of-stagnation\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Elliott this morning:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pressures on the so-called \"squeezed middle\" are now intense. These pressures will not be eased without pro-growth macro-economic policies, activist industrial strategies, stronger unions, higher real incomes across the board, and tougher action against inequality. A return to the Anglo-Saxon model will lead to stagnation, higher unemployment and even bigger public-sector deficits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spot on.<\/p>\n<p>Now it's time to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I should disclose Larry and I are both members of the Green New Deal group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Larry Elliott this morning: The pressures on the so-called &#8220;squeezed middle&#8221; are now intense. These pressures will not be eased without pro-growth macro-economic policies,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/30\/the-only-way-to-help-the-squeezed-middle\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}