{"id":585,"date":"2006-01-11T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=585"},"modified":"2006-01-11T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T12:26:25","slug":"crawling-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"Crawling Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a professor at UMass\/Boston, the Massachusetts economy has slowed to a standstill due to factors other than a normal business cycle downside.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massbenchmarks.org\/indices\/indices.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MassBenchmarks<\/a> co-editor Alan Clayton-Matthews attributes the slowdown to &#8220;pressures of a high cost of living, outsourcing, offshoring and competition from Asia for the state&#8217;s information technology products&#8221;.<br \/>\nWith expected growth of a mere 3\/10 of 1% over the next six months, the Massachusetts economy is suffering from a rise in energy costs, the expectation of rising interest rates, near-stagnant (4\/10 of 1%) growth in payroll employment over the past year, a decline in real inflation-adjusted aggregate wages and out-migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a professor at UMass\/Boston, the Massachusetts economy has slowed to a standstill due to factors other than a normal business cycle downside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}