{"id":38948,"date":"2017-06-15T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38948"},"modified":"2017-06-14T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:52:47","slug":"words-numbers-what-you-should-know-about-poverty-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/words-numbers-what-you-should-know-about-poverty-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Words &#038; Numbers: What You Should Know About Poverty in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PC6wK-iKfMs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 14 Jun 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poverty is a big deal \u2013 it affects about 41 million people in the United States every year \u2013 yet the federal government spends a huge amount of money to end poverty. So much of the government\u2019s welfare spending gets eaten up by bureaucracy, conflicting programs, and politicians presuming they know how people should spend their own money. Obviously, this isn\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p>This week on <em>Words and Numbers<\/em>, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan delve into how people can really become less poor and what that means for society and the government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 14 Jun 2017 Poverty is a big deal \u2013 it affects about 41 million people in the United States every year \u2013 yet the federal government spends a huge amount of money to end poverty. So much of the government\u2019s welfare spending gets eaten up by bureaucracy, conflicting programs, and politicians presuming they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,13],"tags":[595,322,91,290,1091,1033],"class_list":["post-38948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-usa","tag-lbj","tag-nannystate","tag-poverty","tag-statistics","tag-ubi","tag-unintendedconsequences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38949,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38948\/revisions\/38949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}