{"id":2500367,"date":"2026-07-13T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2500367"},"modified":"2026-07-13T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:49:44","slug":"wall-street-goes-bowling-for-profits-driving-up-the-price-of-a-middle-class-pastime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wall-street-goes-bowling-for-profits-driving-up-the-price-of-a-middle-class-pastime\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street goes bowling for profits, driving up the price of a middle-class pastime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p id=\"anchor-e8f6b7\" class=\"body-graf\"><em>This article is part of <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/specials\/unaffordable-america\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>\u201cUnaffordable America,\u201d<\/em><\/a><em> a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"styles_subscriptionCTA__LOUeY\" id=\"subscriptionCTA\" type=\"button\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_textWrapper__vxvko\">\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB styles_textLarge__qlzwu\">Subscribe to read this story ad-free<\/p>\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB\">Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/rockcms\/2026-01\/arrow-f55fa5.svg\" alt=\"arrow\" class=\"styles_arrow__tnruW\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6ff9b9\" class=\"body-graf\">WICHITA, Kan. \u2014 The first sign of trouble Kevin Hess noticed after a private equity-backed corporation took over his local bowling alley was a spike in the price of Jell-O shots from $1 to $2.75 \u2014 a hit to his league\u2019s tradition of buying a round if the center pin was left standing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbcnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of \u201cUnaffordable America,\u201d a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. WICHITA, Kan. \u2014 The first sign of trouble Kevin Hess noticed after a private equity-backed corporation took over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wall-Street-goes-bowling-for-profits-driving-up-the-price.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500369,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500367\/revisions\/2500369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}