{"id":340,"date":"2011-11-20T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-11-20T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T22:51:00","slug":"charts-6-big-economic-myths-debunked-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked | Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/charts-economic-myths-jobs-deficit-taxes\">Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked | Mother Jones<\/a>: #1: The stimulus failed.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (PDF) to private-sector forecasting firms have concluded that the 2009 stimulus package increased economic growth, reduced unemployment, and put millions of people back to work. It just wasn&#8217;t big enough, or long-lasting enough.<br \/>Bust or Boost?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked | Mother Jones: #1: The stimulus failed. Everyone from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (PDF) to private-sector forecasting firms have concluded that the 2009 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charts: 6 Big Economic Myths, Debunked | Mother Jones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contrarian-economics"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}