{"id":39886,"date":"2014-01-29T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=39886"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:56:19","slug":"video-at-costco-obama-touts-his-plan-to-boost-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/01\/29\/video-at-costco-obama-touts-his-plan-to-boost-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: At Costco Obama Touts His Plan To Boost Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=ve0bd38abaa7b33a5eaddab37ab9cb0cf8ae3cd8f&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Barack Obama promoted his State of the Union proposals to boost personal finances of low-income Americans in a morning-after trip Wednesday to push Congress to pass a minimum wage hike for more than the small number of workers he can help on his own. Obama said, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to give America a raise,&#8221; as he visited a Costco store in suburban Maryland to drive home the argument that businesses who pay higher wages can improve their bottom line.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_news\/2014\/01\/29\/1268da59e6158584d9479837ba30cdf33bf00e58_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_news\/2014\/01\/29\/1268da59e6158584d9479837ba30cdf33bf00e58_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama promoted his State of the Union proposals to boost personal finances of low-income Americans in a morning-after trip Wednesday to push Congress to pass a minimum wage hike for more than the small number of workers he can help on his own. Obama said, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to give America a raise,&#8221; as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/01\/29\/video-at-costco-obama-touts-his-plan-to-boost-wages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: At Costco Obama Touts His Plan To Boost Wages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}