{"id":10513,"date":"2009-01-04T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_says_us_must_act_swiftly_to_address_economy\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T04:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T04:00:49","slug":"obama_says_us_must_act_swiftly_to_address_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10513","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says U.S. Must Act Swiftly to Address Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama said that Democrats and Republicans need to act with urgency to address the \u201cgreat and growing\u201d\u009d economic crisis, warning of double-digit unemployment if swift action isn\u2019t taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are America\u2019s problems, and we must come together as Americans to meet them with the urgency this moment demands,\u201d\u009d he said today in his weekly radio address. \u201cIf we don\u2019t act swiftly and boldly, we could see a much deeper economic downturn that could lead to double-digit unemployment.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=axoaniRp5i9w&#038;refer=worldwide\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama said that Democrats and Republicans need to act with urgency to address the \u201cgreat and growing\u201d\u009d economic crisis, warning of double-digit unemployment if swift action isn\u2019t taken. \u201cThese are America\u2019s problems, and we must come together as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10513\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,597,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}