{"id":44543,"date":"2014-06-04T06:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44543"},"modified":"2014-06-11T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:08:48","slug":"44543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44543","title":{"rendered":"Free Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe  Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seattle raised its minimum wage to $15 while the economy is in the doldrums and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedliberty.org\/articles\/17751-warning-to-seattle-seatac-businesses-slashing-benefits-overtime-in-wake-of-wage-hike\">employers are reactin<\/a>g by cutting hours, benefits, and in some cases relocating out of the city.<\/p>\n<p>This is PROOF that employers are robber barons who will do anything to go on exploiting the workers.  Plainly, the minimum wage must be set at a higher level of government so employers cannot move to escape it.  And benefits mandated, too.  With free parking, and overtime.  And more vacation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed the celebratory coverage from Seattle has been really light on impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Seattle raised its minimum wage to $15 while the economy is in the doldrums and employers are reacting by cutting hours, benefits, and in some cases relocating out of the city. This is PROOF that employers are robber barons who will do anything to go on exploiting the workers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44796,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44543\/revisions\/44796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}