{"id":2449,"date":"2011-05-24T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2011-05-24T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T14:42:55","slug":"south-carolina-is-giving-away-more-corporate-tax-breaks-while-cutting-aid-to-the-jobless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/24\/south-carolina-is-giving-away-more-corporate-tax-breaks-while-cutting-aid-to-the-jobless\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina is giving away more corporate tax breaks, while cutting aid to the jobless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Pat Garofalo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\">Wonk Room<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The South               Carolina state Senate &#8230; is cooking up a budget that               includes $100 million in corporate tax breaks &#8230; Already,               the state has reduced its benefits under the Temporary               Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by 20 percent               to $216 per month, which is just 14 percent of the poverty               line.<\/p>\n<p>And as The Huffington Post\u2019s Arthur Delaney               reported, South                 Carolina is also looking at cutting its unemployment                 insurance system: &#8216;The South Carolina State               Senate gave preliminary approval last week to a bill that               would reduce state                 unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20               weeks&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2011\/05\/19\/sc-corporate-assistance\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pat Garofalo Wonk Room &#8220;The South Carolina state Senate &#8230; is cooking up a budget that includes $100 million in corporate tax breaks &#8230; Already, the state has reduced its benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/24\/south-carolina-is-giving-away-more-corporate-tax-breaks-while-cutting-aid-to-the-jobless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}