{"id":199678,"date":"2015-11-12T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=199678"},"modified":"2015-11-12T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T20:23:16","slug":"hillary-clinton-no-friend-working-class-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/hillary-clinton-no-friend-working-class-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton no friend of working class: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Low-skilled workers in the United States have increasingly failed to earn a living wage due to corporate greed in the country, an issue that American politicians only address in times of elections, says a political analyst.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minimum wage in the US has lagged behind costs of living for decades and it sentences millions of people to poverty even as they are working full-time jobs,\u201d Daniel Patrick Welch told Press TV on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst was speaking about the \u201cFight for 15\u201d nationwide<a href=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.231:8001\/panel\/index.html#submit\"> Save<\/a> campaign which seeks wage hikes at low-paying fast food restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the three-year-old nationwide labor movement held its largest demonstration to date, when thousands of fast-food workers went on a one-day strike in 270 American cities.<\/p>\n<p>The movement has so far been endorsed by Democratic US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is definitely a good thing that there is this push, especially in fast-food industry, where you have deep pockets, these enormous international corporations that are taking in record profits,\u201d Welch said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/11\/12\/437383\/US-minimum-wage-Daniel-Patrick-Welch\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-skilled workers in the United States have increasingly failed to earn a living wage due to corporate greed in the country, an issue that American politicians only address in times of elections, says a political analyst. \u201cThe minimum wage in the US has lagged behind costs of living for decades and it sentences millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}