{"id":1096,"date":"2007-01-09T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:17:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:17:38","slug":"democratic-partys-congressional-agenda-ignores-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/01\/09\/democratic-partys-congressional-agenda-ignores-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party&#8217;s Congressional Agenda Ignores Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_09_desai.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_09_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\/images\/ufelogo.jpg\" alt=\"UFE\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Anisha Desai, Program Director, United for a Fair Economy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Democratic Party-controlled Congress is set to kick off their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153first one-hundred hours\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agenda. Included in the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agenda are populist proposals aimed at increasing the minimum wage and reducing the interest rates on college student loans. As their first one-hundred legislative hours will coincide with the annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, United for a Fair Economy has released a new report analyzing the measures put forth by Congressional Democrats, from the perspective of King himself. The report is entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\/press\/2007\/people_vote_blue_but_stay_in_red.html\">State of the Dream 2007: Voting Blue, Staying in the Red<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It claims that the Democratic proposals ignore racial inequalities and therefore will not adequately reduce them. Key findings assert that the proposed reduction of college loan debt will benefit whites more so than Latino and Black students, as black college graduates, in particular, earn less than their degree holding counterparts. The State of the Dream Report also criticizes the fact that issues such as Katrina and housing have been omitted from the Democrats&#8217; Congressional agenda. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\">www.faireconomy.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Download the entire report, State of the Dream 2007 at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\/reports\/2007\/StateOfTheDream2007.pdf\">http:\/\/www.faireconomy.org\/reports\/2007\/StateOfTheDream2007.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Anisha Desai, Program Director, United for a Fair Economy Today, the Democratic Party-controlled Congress is set to kick off their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153first one-hundred hours\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agenda. Included in the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agenda are populist proposals aimed at increasing the minimum wage and reducing the interest rates on college student loans. As their first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}