{"id":49522,"date":"2015-04-24T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mirror_jesus_would_pay_a_living_wage_and_so_should_the_government_says_arch\/"},"modified":"2015-04-24T17:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T17:00:03","slug":"mirror_jesus_would_pay_a_living_wage_and_so_should_the_government_says_arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49522","title":{"rendered":"(Mirror) Jesus would pay a living wage and so should the government, says Archbishop of York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a myth to suggest people on benefits must be scroungers. Most people in poverty in the UK are working. Of the children living in poverty, 61% have working parents.<\/p>\n<p>When the Living Wage is introduced, everyone \u00c2\u00adbenefits. Morale goes up.<\/p>\n<p>When work feels \u00c2\u00adworthwhile, its quality improves. Raising pay to a living wage would reduce the benefits bill, increase tax receipts and boost the economy by stepping up workers\u2019 spending power.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/jesus-would-pay-living-wage-5571664\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a myth to suggest people on benefits must be scroungers. Most people in poverty in the UK are working. Of the children living in poverty, 61% have working parents. When the Living Wage is introduced, everyone \u00c2\u00adbenefits. Morale goes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49522\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,83,389,589,149,199,168,597,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-york-john-sentamu","category-church-of-england-coe","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522","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=49522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}