{"id":35,"date":"2006-03-21T11:09:44","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T16:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-07-18T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T09:31:12","slug":"when-pension-reform-means-making-pensioners-more-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"When &#8220;Pension Reform&#8221; means making pensioners more vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Its not only workers who have to worry about having their jobs outsourced. Retirees pensions are under a similar threat as their former employers have to compete with overseas companies\u00c2\u00a0that don&#8217;t have such costs to weigh them down. Although Bush attempted to shore up pension programs Tom Delay&#8217;s Republican lobbyists from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2003\/0307.confessore.html\">&#8220;K Street project&#8221;<\/a> have successfully made <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/19\/business\/19pension.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;ex=1142744400&#038;en=aedadeb0f2299749&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage&#038;oref=slogin\"><strong>pensions more vulnerable than ever.<\/strong><\/a><strong> Threatened American pensioners\u00c2\u00a0are better for a go-go economy. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its not only workers who have to worry about having their jobs outsourced. Retirees pensions are under a similar threat as their former employers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}