{"id":304,"date":"2007-11-13T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/interesting-tidbits-of-news"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T18:49:00","slug":"interesting-tidbits-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/interesting-tidbits-of-news","title":{"rendered":"Interesting tidbits of news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clips from <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Progress Report<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;hidden&#8221; economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, costing the average U.S. family of four more than $20,000. The total includes higher oil prices, the expense of treating wounded veterans, and interest payments on the money borrowed to pay for the wars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The income gap between black and white families has grown,&#8221; according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. One reason for the widening gap is that &#8220;incomes among black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>$19.5 million: Amount PhRMA spent from July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, aimed at killing legislation to speed the availability of less expensive generic drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I were a conspiracy theorist I might say these go hand in hand and result from a republic congress [with d&#8217;s aiding and abetting] &#8230;but then the right wingnuts would get royally pissed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clips from The Progress Report The &#8220;hidden&#8221; economic costs to the United States of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan so far total approximately $1.5 trillion, costing the average U.S. family of four more than $20,000. The total includes higher oil prices, the expense of treating wounded veterans, and interest payments on the money borrowed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[503,502],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-money","tag-pharmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}