{"id":21306,"date":"2015-07-21T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21306"},"modified":"2015-07-21T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T20:56:05","slug":"i-am-a-cashier-at-the-us-capitol-i-earn-so-little-that-i-work-two-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/21\/i-am-a-cashier-at-the-us-capitol-i-earn-so-little-that-i-work-two-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a cashier at the US Capitol. I earn so little that I work two jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline that Bernie Sanders gave this story when he featured it on his web site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/newsroom\/must-read\/i-am-a-cashier-at-the-us-capitol-i-earn-so-little-that-i-work-two-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Start of article as posted on his Senatorial web site\">I am a cashier at the US Capitol. I earn so little that I work two jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> that has published the full story, uses the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jul\/21\/cashier-at-us-capitol-work-two-jobs-minimum-wage?CMP=edit_2221\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The full story at the Guardian\"> I work at the US Capitol and KFC. Colonel Sanders pays me more than Uncle Sam<\/a> by<br \/>\nSontia Bailey.<\/p>\n<p>The sub-head should give you the gist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen I had a miscarriage, I couldn\u2019t even afford to grieve \u2013 I had to get back to work so I could pay for a decent funeral for my son.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the story that candidates like John Ellis Bush don&#8217;t seem to have a way of comprehending.  Not only would a living wage have saved this woman&#8217;s baby by allowing her to  have to work only a single job, it would also open up her second job to another worker who needs it.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it so hard for some people to understand how important raising the minimum wage is to the health of our economy and to our people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline that Bernie Sanders gave this story when he featured it on his web site is I am a cashier at the US Capitol. I earn so little that I work two jobs. The Guardian that has published the full story, uses the headline I work at the US Capitol and KFC. Colonel Sanders [&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-21306","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\/21306","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=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21307,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions\/21307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}