{"id":11600,"date":"2012-07-21T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T12:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11600"},"modified":"2012-07-21T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T12:59:00","slug":"which-ceo-made-5-million-stealing-your-kids-lunch-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/21\/which-ceo-made-5-million-stealing-your-kids-lunch-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Which CEO made $5 million stealing your kid&#8217;s lunch money?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see that Massachusetts is one of the states involved.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sFTNQ1PAMiY?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits. Their approach is working &#8212; for them. Not so much for the students who pay the price in the form of a subpar education and poor performance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If our economy is going to be competitive on a global scale via a more educated work force, then we cannot afford to play games with our educational system.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the fallacy that education is the way to keep middle-class wages high is the subject of other blog posts on this site.  Which is to say that a better educated work force is necessary to keep us from falling behind, but it is not enough to keep us ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon tells me that she has seen ads for the corporation mentioned in the above video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to see that Massachusetts is one of the states involved. ALEC is working to ensure that public education dollars get diverted to private profits. Their approach is working &#8212; for them. Not so much for the students who pay the price in the form of a subpar education and poor performance. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11603,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11600\/revisions\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}