{"id":21402,"date":"2010-08-22T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page_the_face_of_the_newly_poor\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T16:00:14","slug":"local_paper_front_page_the_face_of_the_newly_poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21402","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper front Page: The face of the newly poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, an average of 112 people &#8212; most of them the newly poor &#8212; sign up for free government health care in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Since the recession officially hit in December 2007, some 3,300 people a month, on average, have signed up for Medicaid in a state that outpaces the nation for poverty, obesity and diseases such as diabetes. Yet, South Carolina&#8217;s political leaders have been among the most vocal in the country in opposition of the new health care law&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/22\/the-face-of-the-newly-poor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, an average of 112 people &#8212; most of them the newly poor &#8212; sign up for free government health care in South Carolina. Since the recession officially hit in December 2007, some 3,300 people a month, on average,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21402\">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":[39,40,54,513,149,104,600,597,114,151,88,619,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","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=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}