{"id":2515,"date":"2012-09-06T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:04:35","slug":"public-opinion-snapshot-public-supports-infrastructure-spending-to-create-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/public-opinion-snapshot-public-supports-infrastructure-spending-to-create-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Supports Infrastructure Spending to Create Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Conservatives claim the only way to create jobs is to cut taxes and spending, which will magically induce businesses to invest at a furious rate. The public seems to understand, however, that in today\u2019s economic climate some spending might perform a useful role. One approach that meets with considerable public approval is spending on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">In a just-released ABC\/<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\">Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0poll, the public favored by a wide margin (52-33) spending money on projects such as roads, bridges, and technology development over cutting taxes as a way of creating jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/public-opinion\/news\/2012\/09\/04\/35992\/public-opinion-snapshot-public-supports-infrastructure-spending-to-create-jobs\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ruy_snapshot_0831_fig1.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/public-opinion\/news\/2012\/09\/04\/35992\/public-opinion-snapshot-public-supports-infrastructure-spending-to-create-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Supports Infrastructure Spending to Create Jobs | Center for American Progress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives claim the only way to create jobs is to cut taxes and spending, which will magically induce businesses to invest at a furious rate. The public seems to understand, however, that in today\u2019s economic climate some spending might perform a useful role. One approach that meets with considerable public approval is spending on infrastructure&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[24,1382,209,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515"}],"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=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}