{"id":34124,"date":"2013-02-14T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34124"},"modified":"2013-02-14T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T19:11:53","slug":"msnbc-growing-gop-opposition-to-minimum-wage-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/14\/msnbc-growing-gop-opposition-to-minimum-wage-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC: Growing GOP opposition to minimum wage increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can add Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to the list of Republicans who oppose an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.00 an hour.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on the Daily Rundown Thursday, Rep. Blackburn told Chuck Todd she was against the President\u2019s proposal to up the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that basically what the President is saying is \u2018we want individuals to make more.\u2019 I\u2019m not for raising the minimum wage and I\u2019ll tell you why, you\u2019re going to exclude a lot of younger workers,\u201d said Rep. Blackburn. \u201cWhy would you take a step that is going to make it difficult for employers to hire people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2013\/02\/14\/growing-gop-opposition-to-minimum-wage-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can add Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to the list of Republicans who oppose an increase in the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9.00 an hour. In an interview on the Daily Rundown Thursday, Rep. Blackburn told Chuck Todd she was against the President\u2019s proposal to up the minimum wage. \u201cI think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124","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=34124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34125,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34124\/revisions\/34125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}