{"id":49052,"date":"2016-02-11T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49052"},"modified":"2016-02-10T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:52:01","slug":"examining-the-nitty-gritty-in-sanderss-economic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/11\/examining-the-nitty-gritty-in-sanderss-economic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining the Nitty Gritty In Sanders&#8217;s Economic Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601504.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/uprising_2016_02_11\/Gerald_Friedman_2016_02_11.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601504.us.archive.org\/13\/items\/uprising_2016_02_11\/uprising_2016_02_11.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Gerald Friedman<\/strong>, Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that Bernie Sanders has begun to look like a front-runner to the commercial media, his polices are finally being discussed seriously. After all, with so many Americans from across demographic lines supporting him, there&#8217;s got to be something to his rhetoric. According to one economist, featured recently on CNN, &#8220;Under Sanders, Income and Jobs Would Soar.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That analysis flies in the face of knee-jerk assessments of Sanders as a tax-and-spend Democrat who, as President, would leave Americans with even less disposable income than they now have. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, Gerald Friedman has analyzed Sanders&#8217; proposals comprehensively and concluded that &#8220;Median income would soar by more than $22,000. Nearly 26 million jobs would be created. The unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the CNN article, <em>&#8216;Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says&#8217;<\/em> featuring Friedman <em><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/02\/08\/news\/economy\/sanders-income-jobs\/index.html?section=money_latestRead%20Friedman's%20work%20at%20Dollars%20and%20Sense:%20http:\/\/www.dollarsandsense.org\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/em>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Gerald Friedman, Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Now that Bernie Sanders has begun to look like a front-runner to the commercial media, his polices are finally being discussed seriously. After all, with so many Americans from across demographic lines supporting him, there&#8217;s got to be something to his rhetoric. [&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-49052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052","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=49052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49054,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49052\/revisions\/49054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}