{"id":22611,"date":"2013-01-22T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/idirect.php?i=9542"},"modified":"2013-01-22T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T14:01:21","slug":"three-things-obama-can-do-if-he-is-serious-about-promise-to-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/three-things-obama-can-do-if-he-is-serious-about-promise-to-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Things Obama Can Do if he is  Serious About Promise to Middle Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"50%\">\n<p>Context: As yet there are no context links for this item. <\/p>\n<div id=\"rightcol\">\n<h3>Bio<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the founding co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the US and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the US. His latest book is Back to Full Employment. Other books include: A Measure of Fairness: the Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States, and Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"10px\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"1px\" background=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/templates\/gk_twn\/images\/grey_dot.png\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"10px\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><\/p>\n<h3>Comments<\/h3>\n<p>Our automatic spam filter blocks comments with multiple links and multiple users using the same IP address. Please make thoughtful comments with minimal links using only one user name. If you think your comment has been mistakenly removed please email us at contact@therealnews.com<br \/><noscript><\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2F%3Fref_noscript\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/td>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: As yet there are no context links for this item. <\/p>\n<p>Bio<br \/>\nRobert Pollin is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the founding co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). His research cent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}