{"id":24824,"date":"2017-11-04T22:49:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24824"},"modified":"2017-11-04T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T02:49:38","slug":"what-its-like-living-on-low-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/11\/04\/what-its-like-living-on-low-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"What It&#8217;s Like Living On Low Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.s. Senator Bernie Sanders has posted on <em>Facebook<\/em> the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/videos\/10156469785187908\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What It&#8217;s Like Living On Low Wages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen you have massive income and wealth inequality, the very rich becoming much richer, it is not a radical idea to say that in America we should make sure our workers are paid a living wage.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sIj4HFd9Qic?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is what I feel the problem is for well-off Democrats. Some of them that I speak to don&#8217;t seem to be able to understand this. I don&#8217;t live this poor life either, but I realize I have limitations on what I can imagine. I think I know and talk to some people who are living close to this life so that I can at least know what it is I do not know. I think some of my well-off Democratic friends also know such people, but somehow these well-off friends seem to be blocking out the understanding part.<\/p>\n<p>Read the comments on this video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senatorsanders\/videos\/10156469785187908\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Sanders&#8217; Facebook page<\/a> if you want to see a confirmation of what I am saying about some people who are well off, but cannot imagine the struggles some people go through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.s. Senator Bernie Sanders has posted on Facebook the video What It&#8217;s Like Living On Low Wages. When you have massive income and wealth inequality, the very rich becoming much richer, it is not a radical idea to say that in America we should make sure our workers are paid a living wage. This is [&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":["post-24824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824","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=24824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24825,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions\/24825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}