{"id":13879,"date":"2009-07-11T21:00:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/obama_says_economic_stimulus_plan_worked_as_intended\/"},"modified":"2009-07-11T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T21:00:15","slug":"obama_says_economic_stimulus_plan_worked_as_intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13879","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says Economic Stimulus Plan Worked as Intended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill \u201chas worked as intended\u201d\u009d as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has already extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to those who have lost their jobs in this recession,\u201d\u009d Obama, who is traveling today in Ghana, said in his weekly Saturday radio and Web address. \u201cIt has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and business.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=a0StZd9y2rCY\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill \u201chas worked as intended\u201d\u009d as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy. \u201cIt has already extended unemployment insurance and health insurance to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13879\">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":[40,149,616,151,667,596,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-fiscal-stimulus-package-of-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879","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=13879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}