{"id":1077,"date":"2011-12-22T04:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2011-12-22T04:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T09:02:03","slug":"congress-cuts-winter-heating-aid-for-the-poor-while-boosting-the-defense-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/congress-cuts-winter-heating-aid-for-the-poor-while-boosting-the-defense-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Cuts Winter Heating Aid For The Poor While Boosting The Defense Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty in America is only getting worse, with data showing rising income inequality and the startling fact that half of all Americans are now either in poverty or considered low-income. Were it not for the government programs that comprise the social safety net, those numbers would be even worse. More than a quarter would live in poverty without the safety net, according to one study, and Social Security alone kept 14 million out of poverty last year. Despite that, Congress \u2014 and particularly Republicans in Congress \u2014 have made cuts to various programs meant to aid the poorest Americans.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/12\/16\/390805\/congress-cuts-winter-heating-aid-for-the-poor-while-boosting-the-defense-budget\/\">Congress Cuts Winter Heating Aid For The Poor While Boosting The Defense Budget | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty in America is only getting worse, with data showing rising income inequality and the startling fact that half of all Americans are now either in poverty or considered low-income. Were it not for the government programs that comprise the social safety net, those numbers would be even worse. More than a quarter would live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16],"tags":[692,690,88,211,691],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}