{"id":2872,"date":"2012-03-01T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2012-03-01T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T17:23:09","slug":"the-professions-that-dominate-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-professions-that-dominate-the-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Professions that Dominate the US Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/030112_0216_TheProfessi1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catherine Rampell who lists &#8220;Dollars to Donuts&#8221; as her motto recently took a look at the change in history over the professions that dominate the US government. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The share of lawyers in the US Senate peaked at 51% in 1972. It currently stands at 37% and the trend is downward.<\/li>\n<li>Senators with military experience also peaked in 1972 at about 75%.<\/li>\n<li>Bankers and businessmen, on the other hand, have become a stronger force in the senate going from 11% in 1946 to 20% today.<\/li>\n<li>These patterns are broadly reflected in the House of Representatives as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about what has happened to the agriculturalist in the US government, as well as the specific breakdown of the houses by occupation click <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/23\/first-thing-we-do-lets-elect-all-the-lawyers\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/23\/first-thing-we-do-lets-elect-all-the-lawyers\/\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Rampell who lists &#8220;Dollars to Donuts&#8221; as her motto recently took a look at the change in history over the professions that dominate the US government. Highlights include: The share of lawyers in the US Senate peaked at 51% in 1972. It currently stands at 37% and the trend is downward. Senators with military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/030112_0216_TheProfessi1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}