{"id":1891,"date":"2015-10-29T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2015-10-29T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:41:30","slug":"minimum-wage-vote-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/2015\/10\/29\/minimum-wage-vote-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage vote nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Tacoma voters will\u00a0have their voices heard on two potential minimum wage increases. We&#8217;ve heard from bloggers on this issue <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/tag\/minimum-wage\/\">before<\/a>, and here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kplu.org\/post\/will-tacoma-adopt-even-more-ambitious-minimum-wage-hike-seattle\">a piece from Ashley Gross at\u00a0KPLU this\u00a0morning<\/a> with interviews from local residents (and an economist!) on both sides of the issue.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1891-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kplu\/audio\/2015\/10\/tacoma_minimum_wage_feature_mixdown_with_intro.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kplu\/audio\/2015\/10\/tacoma_minimum_wage_feature_mixdown_with_intro.mp3\">http:\/\/cpa.ds.npr.org\/kplu\/audio\/2015\/10\/tacoma_minimum_wage_feature_mixdown_with_intro.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Edit: Although there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a &#8220;Play&#8221; button in the bar above, just click on the far left side of the bar to play the audio clip. The clip is 5:34 long.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Tacoma voters will\u00a0have their voices heard on two potential minimum wage increases. We&#8217;ve heard from bloggers on this issue before, and here&#8217;s a piece from Ashley Gross at\u00a0KPLU this\u00a0morning with interviews from local residents (and an economist!) on both sides of the issue. &nbsp; [Edit: Although there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a &#8220;Play&#8221; button in the bar above, just click on the far left side of the bar to play the audio clip. The clip is 5:34 long.] &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/econ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}