{"id":29472,"date":"2011-11-23T02:18:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T02:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_italians_want_to_cut_debt_but_without_sacrifices\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T02:18:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T02:18:57","slug":"ap_italians_want_to_cut_debt_but_without_sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29472","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Italians want to cut debt but without sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-three percent of Italians believe cutting the country&#8217;s hobbling public debt is a top priority, but few are willing to make personal sacrifices to do so, according to an AP-GfK poll released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Only about a quarter of Italians favor reforming labor laws to make it easier to fire workers, or raising the retirement age from 65 (and sometimes lower) to 67 &#8211; two of the reforms considered critical to curb Italy&#8217;s public spending and boost economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/E\/EU_ITALY_POLL?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2011-11-22-12-45-45\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety-three percent of Italians believe cutting the country&#8217;s hobbling public debt is a top priority, but few are willing to make personal sacrifices to do so, according to an AP-GfK poll released Tuesday. Only about a quarter of Italians favor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29472\">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":[40,50,460,149,591,200,590,448,593,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-european-central-bank","category-italy","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472","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=29472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}