{"id":48898,"date":"2016-01-25T09:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48898"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:57:06","slug":"puerto-rico-slides-deeper-into-fiscal-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/01\/25\/puerto-rico-slides-deeper-into-fiscal-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico Slides Deeper Into Fiscal Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/5\/items\/uprising_2016_01_25\/Andrew_Hanauer_2016_01_25.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601502.us.archive.org\/5\/items\/uprising_2016_01_25\/uprising_2016_01_25.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Andrew Hanauer<\/strong>, campaigns director for Jubilee USA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve heard of the terrible fiscal crisis in Michigan and its impact on residents of Flint and Detroit. But we haven&#8217;t heard as much about Puerto Rico&#8217;s financial crisis. The residents of Puerto Rico, who are of course US citizens, are struggling with major service cuts as a prolonged debt burden has crippled the local economy. <\/p>\n<p>According to the group Jubilee USA, &#8220;The prison system in Puerto Rico can no longer pay a vendor that feeds inmates. Some special education teachers are no longer being paid. In recent years, 200 schools have closed. The island&#8217;s only children&#8217;s hospital, which doesn&#8217;t own an MRI machine, cut its budget by 14% in last two years. Pension funds that the government used to pay the debt are expected to run out of money by 2020.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Find out more here <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jubileeusa.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.jubileeusa.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Andrew Hanauer, campaigns director for Jubilee USA. We&#8217;ve heard of the terrible fiscal crisis in Michigan and its impact on residents of Flint and Detroit. But we haven&#8217;t heard as much about Puerto Rico&#8217;s financial crisis. The residents of Puerto Rico, who are of course US citizens, are struggling with major service cuts as [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898","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=48898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48901,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48898\/revisions\/48901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}