{"id":6414,"date":"2010-07-20T09:52:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:35:29","slug":"dems-break-jobless-aid-stalemate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/20\/dems-break-jobless-aid-stalemate\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems break jobless-aid stalemate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6415\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/unemployment-office-sign-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"unemployment office sign\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/>Waiting only for the late Sen. Robert Byrd&#8217;s replacement to be sworn in so they have enough votes, Senate Democrats were <a title=\"voting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/20\/us\/politics\/20jobs.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">voting<\/a> break the GOP-led stalemate and extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who have been out of work 6 months or more.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>, author of &#8220;<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221;<\/em> reminds that everything from now to November will have a political motive behind it.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor once the Democrats have got the Republicans just where they want them on an issue where they\u2019ve been filibustering. \u00a0Saying \u2018no\u2019 to unemployment benefits in the middle of a recession won\u2019t go down well with most Americans.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting only for the late Sen. Robert Byrd&#8217;s replacement to be sworn in so they have enough votes, Senate Democrats were voting break the GOP-led stalemate and extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who have been out of work 6 months or more.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of &#8220;Only in America? American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3379,3352,3288,3378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}