{"id":21975,"date":"2026-03-31T17:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21975"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:42:27","slug":"oxford-study-exposes-usa-americans-twice-as-poor-as-europeans-35-year-decline-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21975","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Study EXPOSES USA: Americans Twice as Poor as Europeans, 35-Year Decline Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the US, it takes twice as long for the average person to earn a dollar compared to the UK, France, and Germany. The US has higher GDP per capita, but it&#8217;s so unequal that more of its citizens are worse off compared to Western Europe. In 1990, the US&#8217;s time-to-get-one-dollar numbers were comparable to these countries. In the US, the well-off are doing better than ever, but everyone else lives precariously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oxford Study EXPOSES USA: Americans Twice as Poor as Europeans, 35-Year Decline Hidden\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNlxckSioxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, it takes twice as long for the average person to earn a dollar compared to the UK, France, and Germany. The US has higher GDP per capita, but it&#8217;s so unequal that more of its citizens are worse off compared to Western Europe. In 1990, the US&#8217;s time-to-get-one-dollar numbers were comparable to these countries. In the US, the well-off are doing better than ever, but everyone else lives precariously. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNlxckSioxY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[217,165,728,366,363,707,619,1277],"class_list":["post-21975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-income","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-united-states","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21976,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21975\/revisions\/21976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}