{"id":12080,"date":"2009-04-04T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_groups_mobilize_to_keep_poverty_a_priority\/"},"modified":"2009-04-04T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:00:40","slug":"rns_groups_mobilize_to_keep_poverty_a_priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12080","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Groups Mobilize to Keep Poverty a Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse coalition of religious groups is launching an effort to maintain attention on America\u2019s poor as Congress takes up the 2010 budget and the White House tries to reignite a sputtering economy.<\/p>\n<p>The group, The Mobilization to End Poverty, plans to bring thousands of religious and community activists to Washington later this month to urge President Obama to make the poor a priority and continue his goal of reducing domestic poverty by half in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Both are reachable goals, said House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., who joined religious leaders to kick off the effort on Wednesday (April 1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=14003\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diverse coalition of religious groups is launching an effort to maintain attention on America\u2019s poor as Congress takes up the 2010 budget and the White House tries to reignite a sputtering economy. The group, The Mobilization to End Poverty,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12080\">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":[39,88,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-poverty","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080","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=12080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}