{"id":4660,"date":"2013-10-27T22:52:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2020-03-29T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T14:57:17","slug":"how-americans-spent-money-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How Americans Spent Money in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/how-americans-spend-money.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4661\" alt=\"how americans spend money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/how-americans-spend-money.png\" width=\"553\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/how-americans-spend-money.png 553w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/how-americans-spend-money-300x264.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/how-americans-spend-money-339x300.png 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Housing, food, transportation, and clothing account for an estimated 66% of income spent for an average American household in 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/09\/where-americans-rich-and-poor-spent-every-dollar-in-2012\/279727\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>, housing, food and clothing account for more than 60% of expenses for the poor. Basically, most of their income is spent is covering basic needs and not much, or none, is left for savings. The rich, by contrast, have a larger margin that can be spent in entertainment, insurance, and savings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2013\/09\/where-americans-rich-and-poor-spent-every-dollar-in-2012\/279727\/\">The Atlantic: Where Americans\u2014Rich and Poor\u2014Spent Every Dollar in 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Housing, food, transportation, and clothing account for an estimated 66% of income spent for an average American household in 2012. According to The Atlantic, housing, food and clothing account for more than 60% of expenses for the poor. Basically, most of their income is spent is covering basic needs and not much, or none, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='How Americans Spent Money in 2012' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/10\/27\/how-americans-spent-money-in-2012\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,165,29,166,14],"tags":[1333,925,1332,770,221,157,283,899,225,1359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}