{"id":46640,"date":"2014-10-31T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/quartz_the_roma_may_be_just_what_europe_needs_to_recover\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T18:00:31","slug":"quartz_the_roma_may_be_just_what_europe_needs_to_recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46640","title":{"rendered":"(Quartz) The Roma may be just what Europe needs to recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roma constitute the largest ethnic minority in Europe. While many think the continent would be better off without them, the Roma have lived in Europe for more than 1,500 years, and represent one of Europe\u2019s last, great hopes.<\/p>\n<p>But currently, the Roma are among the continent\u2019s most underserved communities. And like Europe\u2019s Jews, and newcomers from Africa and the Middle East, they\u2019re finding themselves caught up in a resurgence of racism and xenophobia.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate for Roma in Bulgaria was 59% in 2010, and 50% in Romania according to a seminal World Bank report, while average unemployment in Bulgaria was 11.6%, and 7.3% in Romania in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/280695\/the-roma-may-be-just-what-europe-needs-to-recover\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roma constitute the largest ethnic minority in Europe. While many think the continent would be better off without them, the Roma have lived in Europe for more than 1,500 years, and represent one of Europe\u2019s last, great hopes. But<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46640\">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":[39,40,50,447,175,473,149,168,200,144,114,151,129,108,474,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-eastern-europe","category-anthropology","category-bulgaria","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-romania","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640","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=46640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}