{"id":781,"date":"2011-10-18T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-10-18T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:44:00","slug":"poll-americans-overwhelmingly-support-first-piece-of-obama-jobs-plan-to-prevent-teacher-firefighter-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-support-first-piece-of-obama-jobs-plan-to-prevent-teacher-firefighter-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support First Piece Of Obama Jobs Plan To Prevent Teacher, Firefighter Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/17\/346144\/poll-americans-support-jobs-bill-prevent-layoffs\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/firefighters.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, two Senate Democrats joined Senate Republicans to filubuster President Obama\u2019s jobs plan, even though analysts have found that it could add 1.9 million jobs next year. Now, Democratic lawmakers have decided to introduce Obama\u2019s plan piece-by-piece, beginning with Obama\u2019s $35 billion aid package \u201cto help state and local governments provide funding for teachers, police officers and firefighters\u201d that would create or save about 400,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The first measure will be well received by the public, as a new CNN poll found that, for the past two months, about 75 percent of the American people support this measure:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/10\/17\/346144\/poll-americans-support-jobs-bill-prevent-layoffs\/\">Poll: Americans Overwhemingly Support First Piece Of Obama Jobs Plan To Prevent Teacher, Firefighter Layoffs | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last week, two Senate Democrats joined Senate Republicans to filubuster President Obama\u2019s jobs plan, even though analysts have found that it could add 1.9 million jobs next year. Now, Democratic lawmakers have decided to introduce Obama\u2019s plan piece-by-piece, beginning with Obama\u2019s $35 billion aid package \u201cto help state and local governments provide funding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16,22],"tags":[55,26,36,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781"}],"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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}