{"id":3190,"date":"2015-10-25T19:55:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2015-10-25T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:03:54","slug":"the-federal-governments-information-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-federal-governments-information-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Government\u2019s Information Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3190-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DoL-Raise-the-Wage-Video.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DoL-Raise-the-Wage-Video.mp4\">https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DoL-Raise-the-Wage-Video.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>[Click the image to see the Department of Labor video play.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Should we raise the minimum wage? That is a subject worthy of fair and square political debate, which it is receiving in the opening weeks of the presidential primary season. But how would you feel if you learned the Obama Administration is using <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">your <\/em>tax dollars to persuade <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">you <\/em>to support such federal legislation?<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf--p\">Well, it is. The Department of Labor has been conducting a media campaign for months. It has a webpage devoted to the topic, which proclaims, \u201cSee how raising the national minimum wage will benefit America\u2019s workers\u201d.\u2026 (<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/160974\" data-href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/article\/160974\">Read more at History News Network<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click the image to see the Department of Labor video play.] Should we raise the minimum wage? That is a subject worthy of fair and square political debate, which it is receiving in the opening weeks of the presidential primary season. But how would you feel if you learned the Obama Administration is using your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-communications-and-or-propaganda","tag-history-news-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}