{"id":71717,"date":"2021-03-10T13:12:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=78a250fa9cb411449e5f57e2d6f88a19"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:12:53","slug":"in-rejection-of-austerity-democrats-push-forward-landmark-1-9-trillion-relief-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/10\/in-rejection-of-austerity-democrats-push-forward-landmark-1-9-trillion-relief-package\/","title":{"rendered":"In Rejection of Austerity, Democrats Push Forward Landmark $1.9 Trillion Relief Package"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/10\/covid_relief_package_stephanie_kelton\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/60\/56960\/w320\/seg1-poverty.jpg\" alt=\"Seg1 poverty\" \/><\/a><p>As President Joe Biden prepares to sign the sweeping $1.9 trillion <span class=\"caps\">COVID<\/span> relief package into law, we speak with economist Stephanie Kelton, author of &#8220;The Deficit Myth,&#8221; about how the bill could help cut child poverty in half and provide a historic economic boost to the poorest people in the United States. &#8220;This is a piece of legislation that recognizes the immense pain that exists all across this country, and it delivers help,&#8221; says Kelton, a professor at Stony Brook University and former adviser to Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/3\/10\/covid_relief_package_stephanie_kelton\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Joe Biden prepares to sign the sweeping $1.9 trillion COVID relief package into law, we speak with economist Stephanie Kelton, author of &#8220;The Deficit Myth,&#8221; about how the bill could help cut child poverty in half and provide a historic economic boost to the poorest people in the United States. &#8220;This is a piece of legislation that recognizes the immense pain that exists all across this country, and it delivers help,&#8221; says Kelton, a professor at Stony Brook University and former adviser to Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71717"}],"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\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71718,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71717\/revisions\/71718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}