{"id":191688,"date":"2009-07-08T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/08\/a-real-progrom-toi-help-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:20:00","slug":"a-real-progrom-toi-help-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/08\/a-real-progrom-toi-help-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Progrom toi Help the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/07\/06\/news\/economy\/minimum_wage\/index.htm?postversion=2009070704\">minimum wage goes from $6.55\/hr to $7.25\/hr on July 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The linked article wrings it hands about the &#8220;stress&#8221; on the job market from the increase, but the reality is that no one has ever been able to find a correlation between increases in the minimum wage and <span>unemployment<\/span>, and getting more money into the hands of poor people, who spend the money more quickly, is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">best<\/span> way to get the economy moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum wage goes from $6.55\/hr to $7.25\/hr on July 24. The linked article wrings it hands about the &#8220;stress&#8221; on the job market from the increase, but the reality is that no one has ever been able to find a correlation between increases in the minimum wage and unemployment, and getting more money into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labor","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191688"}],"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=191688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}