{"id":8862,"date":"2013-05-21T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8862"},"modified":"2013-05-21T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:34:06","slug":"time-to-end-the-senior-citizen-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/time-to-end-the-senior-citizen-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"Time To End The Senior Citizen Discount?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/052113_1331_TimeToEndTh1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Mayyasi believes that it&#8217;s time to end the senior citizen discount:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giving benefits to seniors dates back to the Great Depression which affected the poor disproportionately.<\/li>\n<li>However in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century there&#8217;s been a significant decline in poverty among the elderly.<\/li>\n<li>Now it is the millennials \u2013 the youngest generation \u2013 that is poor.<\/li>\n<li>And it doesn&#8217;t seem like the millennials will escape poverty anytime soon \u2013 they carry $1 trillion in student debt and have to deal with a soft job market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mayyasi concludes by arguing that we actually need a discount for millennials \u2013 find out what he thinks that discount should be called, graphs that demonstrate poverty and net worth by age group, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/why-does-the-senior-citizen-discount-still-exist\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/why-does-the-senior-citizen-discount-still-exist\/\">Priceonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mayyasi believes that it&#8217;s time to end the senior citizen discount: Giving benefits to seniors dates back to the Great Depression which affected the poor disproportionately. However in the 20th century there&#8217;s been a significant decline in poverty among the elderly. Now it is the millennials \u2013 the youngest generation \u2013 that is poor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8862","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\/2013\/05\/052113_1331_TimeToEndTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862","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=8862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8862\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}