{"id":3185,"date":"2013-03-12T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:35:51","slug":"in-u-s-71-back-raising-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/in-u-s-71-back-raising-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"In U.S., 71% Back Raising Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160913\/back-raising-minimum-wage.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fuvdw1_swemgqznlr0z-tw.gif\" width=\"337\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seven in 10 Americans say they would vote &#8220;for&#8221; raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour if given the opportunity, while 27% would vote against such a bill. The proposal, made by President Barack Obama in his 2013 State of the Union speech, is backed by over 90% of Democrats and self-described liberals, and by over two-thirds of independents and moderates. Republicans are evenly split on the proposal, while conservatives tilt slightly in favor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/160913\/back-raising-minimum-wage.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">In U.S., 71% Back Raising Minimum Wage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven in 10 Americans say they would vote &#8220;for&#8221; raising the minimum wage to $9 per hour if given the opportunity, while 27% would vote against such a bill. The proposal, made by President Barack Obama in his 2013 State of the Union speech, is backed by over 90% of Democrats and self-described liberals, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1663,319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"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=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}