{"id":89532,"date":"2013-05-04T06:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T12:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89532"},"modified":"2013-05-04T06:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T12:35:58","slug":"reality-check-strapped-states-cutting-unemployment-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89532","title":{"rendered":"Reality Check: Strapped States Cutting Unemployment Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/05\/03\/180818625\/reality-check-strapped-states-cutting-unemployment-benefits?ft=1&amp;f=1091\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After years of persistently high unemployment, states have drained their unemployment trust fund accounts.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that states collectively owe the federal government $30 billion \u2014 money that they are now having to pay back with interest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;States are forced to come up with all sorts of strategies to pay the money back, but they are also rejiggering their entire systems,&#8221; says Sujit CanagaRetna, a senior fiscal analyst with the Council of State Governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. After years of persistently high unemployment, states have drained their unemployment trust fund accounts. The result is that states collectively owe the federal government $30 billion \u2014 money that they are now having to pay back with interest. &#8220;States are forced to come up with all sorts of strategies to pay the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89536,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89532\/revisions\/89536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}