{"id":3745,"date":"2012-06-01T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:51:01","slug":"peter-edelman-how-did-america-get-so-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"Peter Edelman: How Did America Get So Poor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SQ_5VBdQ30g?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Twenty million people in the United States make less than half of the poverty line, which is about $19,000 per year for a family of three. Another 103 million bring home incomes lower than twice the poverty line. Is this because poverty alleviation programs don&#8217;t work, or because we have too many low-wage jobs?<\/p>\n<p>Peter Edelman of Georgetown University Law Center joins Laura Flanders to explain how we became a nation that fails to help its most needy citizens and what can be done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation Twenty million people in the United States make less than half of the poverty line, which is about $19,000 per year for a family of three. Another 103 million bring home incomes lower than twice the poverty line. Is this because poverty alleviation programs don&#8217;t work, or because we have too many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[208,1094,1093,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3747,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}