{"id":806165,"date":"2022-09-21T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255528"},"modified":"2022-09-21T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:50:13","slug":"do-workers-have-to-take-it-on-the-chin-to-fight-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/21\/do-workers-have-to-take-it-on-the-chin-to-fight-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Workers Have to Take It on the Chin to Fight Inflation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had many people ask me if there is not a better way to fight inflation than the current route of Federal Reserve Board rate hikes. Just to remind people, this route fights inflation by slowing the economy, throwing people out of work, and then forcing workers to take pay cuts. The people who  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/do-workers-have-to-take-it-on-the-chin-to-fight-inflation\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/do-workers-have-to-take-it-on-the-chin-to-fight-inflation\/\">Do Workers Have to Take It on the Chin to Fight Inflation?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/21\/do-workers-have-to-take-it-on-the-chin-to-fight-inflation\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had many people ask me if there is not a better way to fight inflation than the current route of Federal Reserve Board rate hikes. Just to remind people, this route fights inflation by slowing the economy, throwing people out of work, and then f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806165"}],"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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806166,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806165\/revisions\/806166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}