{"id":188694,"date":"2010-08-10T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/10\/congress-passes-state-aid-bill\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T01:19:00","slug":"congress-passes-state-aid-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/10\/congress-passes-state-aid-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Passes State Aid Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would have been better if the Senate hadn&#8217;t dithered and watered this down, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-10933695\">this should keep a few thousand cops and teachers employed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The US House of Representatives has passed an aid package that will provide cash-strapped states with $26bn (\u00a316.4) for healthcare and education.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which cleared the Senate last week, is now set to be signed by President Barack Obama, three months before the mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>The president had appealed for the passage of the legislation, while Republicans condemned it.<\/p>\n<p>The House had been called back for an emergency session for the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The House voted 247 to 161 in favour of the bill, which supporters say will help to save the jobs of 100,000 teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The package also includes $16.1bn to extend funding for the Medicaid healthcare programme for low-income Americans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has been a very busy August news wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would have been better if the Senate hadn&#8217;t dithered and watered this down, but this should keep a few thousand cops and teachers employed: The US House of Representatives has passed an aid package that will provide cash-strapped states with $26bn (\u00a316.4) for healthcare and education. The bill, which cleared the Senate last week, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,968,975,1020,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-education","category-employment","category-legislation","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}