{"id":88976,"date":"2021-11-11T10:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=88976"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:32:03","slug":"liberal-hypocrisy-and-american-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/liberal-hypocrisy-and-american-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Hypocrisy And American Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it\u2019s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society. But what happens when Republicans aren\u2019t standing in the way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here\u2019s How. | NYT Opinion\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hNDgcjVGHIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many states \u2014 including California, New York and Illinois \u2014 Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. They write the laws. And as we explore in the video above, they often aren\u2019t living up to their values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In key respects, many blue states are actually doing worse than red states. It is in the blue states where affordable housing is often hardest to find, there are some of the most acute disparities in education funding and economic inequality is increasing most quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s easy to blame the other side. And for many Democrats, it\u2019s obvious that Republicans are thwarting progress toward a more equal society. But what happens when Republicans aren\u2019t standing in the way? In many states \u2014 including California, New York and Illinois \u2014 Democrats control all the levers of power. They run the government. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,148,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-posts","category-events-sports-etc","category-voting-politics-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}