{"id":19602,"date":"2015-02-17T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19602"},"modified":"2015-02-17T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T16:06:56","slug":"why-are-people-in-america-paid-so-poorly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/02\/17\/why-are-people-in-america-paid-so-poorly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are people in America paid so poorly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Daily Kos article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/02\/16\/1364699\/-Why-are-people-paid-so-poorly-in-America\" target=\"_blank\">Why are people in America paid so poorly?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The logic of the market is not to pay people what they deserve. It&#8217;s not to pay people what would make a better life for them. It&#8217;s to pay the absolute minimum that you can get away with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another good article that analyzes what is wrong and provides examples where it is better.\u00a0 As expected, finding a viable solution is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jane Switchenko for <a title=\"Jane Switchenko's Facebook page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jane.switchenko\/posts\/419938838170217\" target=\"_blank\">posting this on her Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the story Why are people in America paid so poorly?. The logic of the market is not to pay people what they deserve. It&#8217;s not to pay people what would make a better life for them. It&#8217;s to pay the absolute minimum that you can get away with. Another good article [&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-19602","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\/19602","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=19602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19603,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19602\/revisions\/19603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}