{"id":7932,"date":"2014-02-21T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2014-02-21T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T16:20:14","slug":"washington-week-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7932","title":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/022014_thisweek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7933\" alt=\"022014_thisweek\" src=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/022014_thisweek-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/022014_thisweek-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/022014_thisweek.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WITH GWEN IFILL<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 9:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>THIS WEEK: UKRAINE ERUPTS, MINIMUM WAGE, 2014 ELECTION SPENDING &amp; RACES TO WATCH<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Violent protests between police in Ukraine and anti-government demonstrators escalated on Thursday after a truce between the president and opposition leaders fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>The debate over raising the minimum wage turned into a political firestorm this week after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimates on the cost of raising the federal minimum from $7.25 an hour to $10.10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/44995\">According to the CBO<\/a>, a higher minimum wage would boost the incomes of most low-wage workers but could cost nearly half a million jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/washingtonweek\/thisweek\/022014\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 @ 9:00PM THIS WEEK: UKRAINE ERUPTS, MINIMUM WAGE, 2014 ELECTION SPENDING &amp; RACES TO WATCH Violent protests between police in Ukraine and anti-government demonstrators escalated on Thursday after a truce between the president and opposition leaders fell apart. The debate over raising the minimum wage turned into a political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WASHINGTON WEEK<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7934,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}