{"id":544,"date":"2014-06-08T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=544"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:49:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:49:29","slug":"rhetoric-trumps-logic-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Rhetoric trumps logic &#8230; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThirtyEight.com reports that the decision by congressional Republicans to cut off\u00a0 unemployment insurance to 1.3 million Americans hasn\u2019t led to a surge in their finding jobs.\u00a0 An analysis of data shows that only about 25 percent of those cut off from benefits have found jobs<\/p>\n<p><em>That&#8217;s the same rate as among people still receiving unemployment benefits.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThirtyEight.com reports that the decision by congressional Republicans to cut off\u00a0 unemployment insurance to 1.3 million Americans hasn\u2019t led to a surge in their finding jobs.\u00a0 An analysis of data shows that only about 25 percent of those cut off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}