{"id":6649,"date":"2011-07-12T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2011-07-12T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T00:41:22","slug":"the-president%e2%80%99s-jobs-plan-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/12\/the-president%e2%80%99s-jobs-plan-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s Jobs Plan (Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich&#8217;s blog has the post <a title=\"Robert Reich's Blog Post\" href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/7539909777\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The President\u2019s Jobs Plan (Not)<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What did the President do in response to last week\u2019s horrendous job report \u2014 unemployment rising to 9.2 percent in June, with only 18,000 new jobs (125,000 are needed each month just to keep up with the growth in the potential labor force)?<\/p>\n<p>He said the economy continues to be in a deep hole, and he urged Congress to extend the temporary reduction in the employee part of the payroll tax, approve pending free-trade agreements, and pass a measure to streamline patent procedures.<\/p>\n<p>To call this inadequate would be a gross understatement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By commenting on his blog, I am trying to elicit from him a comment about the impact of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.\u00a0 I inferred from his book, &#8220;Aftershock&#8230;&#8221; that these tax cuts were partly responsible for the current lack of recovery of employment (jobs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich&#8217;s blog has the post The President\u2019s Jobs Plan (Not). What did the President do in response to last week\u2019s horrendous job report \u2014 unemployment rising to 9.2 percent in June, with only 18,000 new jobs (125,000 are needed each month just to keep up with the growth in the potential labor force)? He [&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-6649","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\/6649","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=6649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6650,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6649\/revisions\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}