{"id":195219,"date":"2008-07-22T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/minimum-wage-rises-thursday\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T22:38:00","slug":"minimum-wage-rises-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/22\/minimum-wage-rises-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage Rises Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It goes from <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/07\/18\/smallbusiness\/minimum_wage_increase.fsb\/index.htm?postversion=2008071814\">$5.85\/hr to $6.55\/hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also about the only thing that has even a modest chance of stimulating the economy, because the people at the bottom of the wage scale will spend it.<\/p>\n<p>It will hit $7.25 next July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It goes from $5.85\/hr to $6.55\/hour. It&#8217;s also about the only thing that has even a modest chance of stimulating the economy, because the people at the bottom of the wage scale will spend it. It will hit $7.25 next July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195219"}],"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=195219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}