{"id":2028,"date":"2010-05-03T08:59:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2010-05-03T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T13:06:26","slug":"north-countrys-leading-industry-state-and-local-government-in-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/05\/03\/north-countrys-leading-industry-state-and-local-government-in-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading North Country industry, state and local government, in decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GDP numbers that came out last Friday were generally trumpeted for  their positive growth numbers, building on last quarter&#8217;s boost.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Real gross domestic product &#8212; the output of goods and services produced  by labor and property<br \/>\nlocated in the United States &#8212; increased at an annual rate of 3.2  percent in the first quarter of 2010,<br \/>\n(that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to  the &#8220;advance&#8221; estimate released by<br \/>\nthe Bureau of Economic Analysis.\u00a0 In the fourth quarter, real GDP  increased 5.6 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Buried within those numbers are some even more positive signs for  America&#8217;s economy, and some troubling indicators for the North Country.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the nation&#8217;s state and local government sector declined by a  whopping 3.8 percent.\u00a0 That builds on a decline in the last quarter of 2.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In six of the last nine quarters &#8212; since the beginning of 2008 &#8212; state  and local governments have shrunk, spending less money on everything from salaries to goods  and services.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good news for conservatives, who want to see the private sector  moving ahead of public spending.<\/p>\n<p>But it means tough going for region&#8217;s like the North Country, where most  of the high-paying high-benefits jobs are provided by governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GDP numbers that came out last Friday were generally trumpeted for their positive growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}