{"id":15373,"date":"2009-10-06T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/as_job_loss_rises_obama_aides_act_to_fix_safety_net\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:39:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T15:39:02","slug":"as_job_loss_rises_obama_aides_act_to_fix_safety_net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15373","title":{"rendered":"As Job Loss Rises, Obama Aides Act to Fix Safety Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With unemployment expected to rise well into next year even as the economy slowly recovers, the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are discussing extending several safety net programs as well as proposing new tax incentives for businesses to renew hiring.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama\u2019s economic team discussed a wide range of ideas at a meeting on Monday, following his Saturday radio address in which he said it would \u201cexplore additional options to promote job creation.\u201d\u009d But officials emphasized that a decision was still far off and that in any event the effort would not add up to a second economic stimulus package, only an extension of the first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thinking through all additional potential strategies for accelerating job creation,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Obama\u2019s senior adviser, David Axelrod.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/06\/us\/politics\/06jobless.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With unemployment expected to rise well into next year even as the economy slowly recovers, the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are discussing extending several safety net programs as well as proposing new tax incentives for businesses to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15373\">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":[40,149,597,616,151,667,596,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","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\/15373","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=15373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}