{"id":122,"date":"2020-03-11T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/03\/11\/biden-statement-record-unemployment\/"},"modified":"2020-03-11T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T09:10:00","slug":"biden-statement-record-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/2020\/03\/11\/biden-statement-record-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Vice President Joe Biden on Record Number of Americans Filing for Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement landed within hours of the weekly jobless figures, which showed claims climbing to a level no modern administration has had to answer for. It framed the number not as an economic abstraction but as millions of individual households suddenly without a paycheck.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the statement asks Congress to do<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three requests sit at its centre: extend unemployment insurance beyond its usual ceiling, widen eligibility to gig and contract workers who fall outside the traditional system, and route emergency lending to the small employers most likely to disappear during a long shutdown.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Economists reading the same data broadly agree on the direction, if not the scale. The disagreement is over how quickly relief can physically reach people through state systems that were already straining before the filings began.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now the political question is simpler than the economic one. A bipartisan package moves or it does not, and every week of delay is measured in rent cheques that will not clear.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden issued a formal statement today as a record number of Americans filed for unemployment benefits amid the ongoing crisis. He called on Congress to expand relief for displaced workers and small businesses, urging swift bipartisan action to protect families facing sudden hardship across every state in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[40,41,42],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus-update","tag-general","tag-news","tag-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}