{"id":7064,"date":"2014-11-05T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/time-to-raise-wages\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:30:39","slug":"time-to-raise-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/time-to-raise-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to raise wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Could you survive on $9.47 an hour? That&#8217;s next year&#8217;s state minimum wage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It may be the highest in the country, but it&#8217;s still not enough for workers to support themselves, afford the basics, and contribute to the economy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Raising wages is good for workers striving for a better future. It&#8217;s also good for our economy. After all, more people with more money means more customers for more businesses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That&#8217;s why I think it&#8217;s time to raise wages, raise up Kent workers, and raise up our whole state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Beatrice Shimirimana<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could you survive on $9.47 an hour? That&#8217;s next year&#8217;s state minimum wage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}