{"id":22883,"date":"2010-11-14T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_eni-u-k-_churches_warn_government_on_forced_employment\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T00:00:26","slug":"rns_eni-u-k-_churches_warn_government_on_forced_employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22883","title":{"rendered":"RNS\/ENI&#8211;U.K. Churches Warn Government on Forced Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British churches have criticized a government plan to remove unemployment benefits from people who refuse to accept jobs offered by labor officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a serious danger that people living in poverty will be stigmatized by government announcements that they are lazy or work shy,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Alison Tomlin, president of the Methodist church in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Iain Duncan Smith, the government minister for work and pensions, on Thursday (Nov. 11) laid out a new \u201ccontract\u201d\u009d with unemployed people that would include removing benefits for up to three years from people who refuse to take work opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/u-k-churches-warn-government-on-forced-employment-cms-16997\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British churches have criticized a government plan to remove unemployment benefits from people who refuse to accept jobs offered by labor officers. \u201cThere is a serious danger that people living in poverty will be stigmatized by government announcements that they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22883\">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":[36,39,40,50,67,149,199,597,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883","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=22883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}