{"id":1091,"date":"2009-08-09T14:19:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2009-08-09T14:19:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:19:58","slug":"recent-trends-immigration-and-income-inequality-compounding-political-paralysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/08\/09\/recent-trends-immigration-and-income-inequality-compounding-political-paralysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent trends: immigration and income inequality compounding political paralysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eight paragraph abstract of <a href=\"http:\/\/polarizedamerica.com\/\">Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches<\/a> (MIT 2006) is astounding. Their argument: an increase in immigration (!) and income inequality leads to political polarization and a paralyzed state. The graphs are eye-popping. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/02\/dimensionality\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight paragraph abstract of Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches (MIT 2006) is astounding. Their argument: an increase in immigration (!) and income inequality leads to political polarization and a paralyzed state. The graphs are eye-popping. Via Paul Krugman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}