{"id":2645,"date":"2022-01-17T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2022-12-04T12:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T20:38:33","slug":"the-poliitcal-economy-of-the-pandemic-in-the-u-s-a-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/the-poliitcal-economy-of-the-pandemic-in-the-u-s-a-way-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The Political Economy of the Pandemic in the U.S.: A Way Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/662\/2022\/01\/United-States-Economy-2022.pdf\">United States Economy, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a critical juncture of a deadly pandemic that intensifies as the Omicron variant surges. I will focus on the U.S. economy with a focus on labor.   Also, the causes and implications of the growth in prices, i.e., inflation, for different social classes.  I will analyze the Omicron variant and what it means for future employment, inflation and the availability of goods and basic services. I will briefly examine, Biden\u2019s Build Back Better proposed legislation and conclude with suggestions on how we can organize for economic justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4,5,9,10],"tags":[29,94,68,69,82,84,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}