{"id":1684,"date":"2024-08-08T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2024-08-01T19:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T23:28:23","slug":"the-cleveland-living-wage-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-cleveland-living-wage-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Living Wage Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people across America work in such low-paying jobs that they need to hold down two or three jobs just to make ends meet. But if you have a full-time job, doesn\u2019t it make sense that you should be paid enough to live on?\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland City Council thinks so, so it is preparing\u00a0 to launch a research project that will guarantee workers $50,000 annually, plus benefits, no matter what low-paying jobs they have.\u00a0 If the project is successful it could\u00a0 spread nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This universal basic employment pilot aims to reduce poverty<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/universal-basic-employment-jobs-guarantee-pilot-cleveland-ohio-cotten\/716758\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.smartcitiesdive.com\/news\/universal-basic-employment-jobs-guarantee-pilot-cleveland-ohio-cotten\/716758\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780197556221\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people across America work in such low-paying jobs that they need to hold down two or three jobs just to make ends meet. But if you have a full-time job, doesn\u2019t it make sense that you should be paid enough to live on?\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland City Council thinks so, so it is preparing\u00a0 to launch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-cleveland-living-wage-experiment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Cleveland Living Wage Experiment&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}