{"id":24722,"date":"2011-02-24T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_budget_cuts_target_the_poor_faith_groups_say\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:50:04","slug":"rns_budget_cuts_target_the_poor_faith_groups_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24722","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Budget Cuts Target the Poor, Faith Groups Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for more undernourished infants, dangerously cold homes and disease-stricken communities in developing countries if proposed federal budget cuts become law.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message coming from left-leaning religious advocacy groups, who\u2019ve been rallying supporters and blanketing Capitol Hill since budget debates kicked into high gear last week (Feb. 14-18). Declaring budgets to be \u201cmoral documents,\u201d\u009d they\u2019re prodding lawmakers to honor their respective faith traditions by sparing poverty-related programs from the cost-cutting axe.<\/p>\n<p>But efforts to save funding are meeting resistance\u201d\u201dnot only from number crunchers, but also from others with different views of what constitutes moral budgeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/budget-cuts-target-the-poor-faith-groups-say-cms-17499\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for more undernourished infants, dangerously cold homes and disease-stricken communities in developing countries if proposed federal budget cuts become law. That\u2019s the message coming from left-leaning religious advocacy groups, who\u2019ve been rallying supporters and blanketing Capitol Hill since<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24722\">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":[39,40,670,149,617,151,108,618,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722","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=24722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}