{"id":56915,"date":"2017-04-28T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/americas-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-replaced-by-robots"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:02:33","slug":"americas-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-replaced-by-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/americas-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-replaced-by-robots","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Replaced by Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/americas-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-replaced-by-robots2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s working class is falling further behind.<\/p>\n<p>The rich-poor gap \u2014 the difference in annual income between households in the top 20 percent and those in the bottom 20 percent \u2014 ballooned by $29,200 to $189,600 between 2010 and 2015, based on Bloomberg calculations using U.S. Census Bureau data.<\/p>\n<p>Computers and robots are taking over many types of tasks, shoving aside some workers while boosting the productivity of specialized employees, contributing to the gap.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/americas-rich-richer-poor-replaced-090103942.html?utm_content=bufferf58c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=yahoofinance\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/americas-rich-richer-poor-rep...hoofinance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s working class is falling further behind. The rich-poor gap \u2014 the difference in annual income between households in the top 20 percent and those in the bottom 20 percent \u2014 ballooned by $29,200 to $189,600 between 2010 and 2015, based on Bloomberg calculations using U.S. Census Bureau data. Computers and robots are taking over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}