{"id":143994,"date":"2020-05-13T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/13\/how-are-britons-faring-since-coronavirus-hit-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T13:35:40","slug":"how-are-britons-faring-since-coronavirus-hit-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=143994","title":{"rendered":"How are Britons faring since coronavirus hit the economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian revisits people who spoke to us on \u2018budget day\u2019 to ask them how the crisis has impacted their financesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficial figures show that the UK economy contracted by 2% in March, as the lockdown brought many industries screeching to a halt. Households have been hit by job losses and furloughing, and forced to adjust to working from home and balancing schooling with all of life\u2019s other demands. The Guardian has revisited some Britons who we last spoke to on the day the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, delivered the 2020 budget, before lockdown, to see how they have fared since.Income subsidies Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/13\/how-are-britons-faring-since-coronavirus-hit-the-economy\" target=\"_blank\">How are Britons faring since coronavirus hit the economy?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian revisits people who spoke to us on \u2018budget day\u2019 to ask them how the crisis has impacted their financesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficial figures show that the UK economy contracted by 2% in March, as the lockdown brought many industries screeching to a halt. Households [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}