{"id":50267,"date":"2015-01-06T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50267"},"modified":"2015-01-06T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:39:22","slug":"misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50267","title":{"rendered":"Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people are more miserable than ever under Obama, according to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/01\/06\/youth-misery-index-grows-more-than-50-under-obama-administration\/\">Young America Foundation&#8221; misery index<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Youth unemployment in 2014 was 18.1 percent (18.1 on YMI), with almost six million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 not in school or work. Many young people are simply giving up on finding employment.<\/p>\n<p>Student loan debt for 2014 rings in at a record-breaking $30,000 (30.0 on YMI). Student debt has risen at an average of six percent per year since 2008, and today, 70% of college seniors graduate with student loan debt. In addition, the job market still hasn\u2019t recovered, leaving many recent graduates with little or no income to pay back their loans.<\/p>\n<p>National debt per capita for 2014 is the highest it\u2019s ever been at $58,437 (58.4 on YMI). Young people will be stuck paying for government debt they had no part in creating, and they\u2019ll have to do it with less discretionary income than ever before because of record-high levels of student loan debt.<\/p>\n<p>Add it all up, and the YMI comes out to an astonishing 106.5 up from 98.6 in 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the index needs to weight unemployment higher &#8211; it&#8217;s a much greater contributor to personal misery than the national debt, which is pretty abstract to most people (so far).<\/p>\n<p>But it remains a fact that the kids that voted for Obama have\u00a0<em>got\u00a0<\/em>to be regretting the choice, someday soon here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people are more miserable than ever under Obama, according to the &#8220;Young America Foundation&#8221; misery index: Youth unemployment in 2014 was 18.1 percent (18.1 on YMI), with almost six million young people between the ages of 16 and 24 not in school or work. Many young people are simply giving up on finding employment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50270,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50267\/revisions\/50270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}