{"id":216141,"date":"2026-03-25T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216141"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:54:59","slug":"americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216141","title":{"rendered":"Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn\u2019t it feel that way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and AI infusion into work is very, very weird.\u00a0 But here\u2019s a number that, if you think hard enough, is stranger \u2014 at least historically \u2014 than all the rest: 10.4 percent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/479190\/food-prices-grocery-doordash-delivery-income\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",724,377,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way-300x156.jpg",300,156,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",640,333,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",640,333,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",724,377,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",724,377,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",724,377,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way.jpg",724,377,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216141-americans-spend-less-of-their-income-on-food-than-almost-ever-why-doesnt-it-feel-that-way-590x377.jpg",590,377,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}