{"id":1506279,"date":"2024-02-18T20:09:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T20:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=3daf3c9abe53f562568b61a9773fb33e"},"modified":"2024-02-18T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T20:09:37","slug":"politicians-are-overlooking-a-powerful-voting-bloc-poor-and-low-income-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/18\/politicians-are-overlooking-a-powerful-voting-bloc-poor-and-low-income-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Are Overlooking a Powerful Voting Bloc: Poor and Low-Income Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst all the nail-biting uncertainty over the 2024 election, one thing&rsquo;s for sure: turnout will be key. This February, the Poor People&rsquo;s Campaign announced plans to mobilize a powerful yet often overlooked voting bloc: the 85 million eligible voters who are poor or low-income. The campaign crunched the numbers and determined that if this bloc voted at the same rate as higher-income voters...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/politicians-are-overlooking-a-powerful-voting-bloc-poor-and-low-income-voters\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/politicians-are-overlooking-a-powerful-voting-bloc-poor-and-low-income-voters\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians pay next to no attention to the concerns of low-income Americans. Advocates want to change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39029,71218,74628,4,34443,8533,34,277],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506280,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506279\/revisions\/1506280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}