{"id":4444,"date":"2009-02-06T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2009-02-06T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T15:27:30","slug":"the_achievement_gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/the_achievement_gap.html","title":{"rendered":"The Achievement Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/money\/2009\/02\/05\/2009-02-05_nyc_so_costly_you_need_to_earn_six_figur.html\">New York City sucks and it&#8217;s getting worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A New Yorker would have to make $123,322 a year to have the same standard of living as someone making $50,000 in Houston.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And with findings like this, it won&#8217;t be long before we have to seriously contend with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/future_shock_on.html\">the crushing burden of one million new residents, which underpins the mayor&#8217;s ambitious 2030 plan for the city<\/a>. Or not:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Researchers said the combination of skyrocketing costs, stagnant wages and a deteriorating quality of life forced hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers to flee the city for cheaper areas during the boom years from 2002 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The report found that more New Yorkers left each year during the boom than left during the dark days of the early 1990s.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City sucks and it&#8217;s getting worse: A New Yorker would have to make $123,322 a year to have the same standard of living as someone making $50,000 in Houston. And with findings like this, it won&#8217;t be long before we have to seriously contend with the crushing burden of one million new residents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simply_the_best_better_than_all_the_rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}