{"id":3837,"date":"2010-11-23T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2010-11-23T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T10:01:19","slug":"congressional_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Members&#8217; Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2010\/11\/congressional-members-personal-weal.html\">opensecrets.org<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Despite a stubbornly sour national economy congressional members&#8217; personal wealth collectively increased by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics of federal financial disclosures released earlier this year.<br \/>\nAnd while some members&#8217; financial portfolios lost value, no need to bemoan most lawmakers&#8217; financial lot: Nearly half of them &#8212; 261 &#8212; are millionaires, a slight increase from the previous year, the Center&#8217;s study finds. That compares to about 1 percent of Americans who lay claim to the same lofty fiscal status.<br \/>\nAnd of these congressional millionaires, 55 have an average calculated wealth in 2009 of $10 million or more, with eight in the $100 million-plus range.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2010\/11\/congressional-members-personal-weal.html\">opensecrets.org<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Despite a stubbornly sour national economy congressional members&#8217; personal wealth collectively increased by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics of federal financial disclosures released earlier this year.<br \/>\nAnd while some members&#8217; financial portfolios lost value, no need to bemoan most lawmakers&#8217; financial lot: Nearly half of them &#8212; 261 &#8212; are millionaires, a slight increase from the previous year, the Center&#8217;s study finds. That compares to about 1 percent of Americans who lay claim to the same lofty fiscal status.<br \/>\nAnd of these congressional millionaires, 55 have an average calculated wealth in 2009 of $10 million or more, with eight in the $100 million-plus range.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,35,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}