{"id":85976,"date":"2023-09-14T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85976"},"modified":"2023-09-14T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:43:31","slug":"heres-a-radical-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85976","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s A Radical Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democrats must have another raft of social spending initiatives in the queue.  Suddenly child poverty is an issue again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFive million more American kids fell into poverty last year. Or maybe it\u2019s more accurate to say they were pushed.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crampell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@crampell<\/a> is right. The child tax credit in Biden rescue plan slashed poverty. Congress let it expire. Poverty roared back. Awful choice. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WFIOhzkQs3\">https:\/\/t.co\/WFIOhzkQs3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EJDionne\/status\/1701715617638654199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a radical idea; stop inflating working families&#8217; money into worthlessness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats must have another raft of social spending initiatives in the queue. Suddenly child poverty is an issue again: Here&#8217;s a radical idea; stop inflating working families&#8217; money into worthlessness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85976","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=85976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85977,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85976\/revisions\/85977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}