{"id":3416,"date":"2016-08-08T08:55:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T12:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2016-08-08T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T14:00:18","slug":"the-federal-governments-500-million-subsidy-to-magazine-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-federal-governments-500-million-subsidy-to-magazine-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Federal Government\u2019s $500 Million Subsidy to Magazine Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: Postal Regulatory Commission, Annual Compliance Detrmination, FY2015<\/p><\/div>\n

Few\u00a0 people love magazines more than I do. At last count, I have a half-dozen subscriptions, down from the baker\u2019s dozen of a few years ago (with four young children, I only have so much reading time). Magazines provide incredible value. A single issue tends to cost between $1 and $3 if you subscribe. Whether one spends 30 minutes or 2 hours, magazine\u2019s per-hour cost for edification and entertainment are tough to beat.<\/p>\n

So nobody can rightly call me a periodicals hater when I report that the federal government is subsidizing magazines to the tune of $500 million per year. This fact is little known outside the world of mailers…. (Read more at the Brookings Institution FixGov Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Few\u00a0 people love magazines more than I do. At last count, I have a half-dozen subscriptions, down from the baker\u2019s dozen of a few years ago (with four young children, I only have so much reading time). Magazines provide incredible value. A single issue tends to cost between $1 and $3 if you subscribe. Whether […]<\/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":[161],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postal-service","tag-brookings-institution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-T6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","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=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}