{"id":9784,"date":"2008-11-25T07:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T07:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_obamas_vast_jobs_plan_how_hard\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T07:32:31","slug":"csm_obamas_vast_jobs_plan_how_hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9784","title":{"rendered":"CSM&#8211;Obama&#39;s vast jobs plan: How hard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of past recessions suggests that President-elect Obama has set a difficult but not impossible target for economic recovery: 2.5 million more jobs within two years.<\/p>\n<p>By announcing this specific goal, alongside a stimulus plan and a team of top economic officials, Mr. Obama signaled that he is focused squarely on the challenge of job losses and an erosion of economic confidence.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to ramp up spending on everything from roads and schools to solar panels and investments in energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The task ahead is formidable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1125\/p01s04-usec.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The history of past recessions suggests that President-elect Obama has set a difficult but not impossible target for economic recovery: 2.5 million more jobs within two years. By announcing this specific goal, alongside a stimulus plan and a team of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9784\">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":[40,149,597,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784","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=9784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}