{"id":31798,"date":"2012-10-08T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31798"},"modified":"2012-10-08T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:48:17","slug":"cory-booker-lures-wall-street-millions-to-newark-few-have-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2012\/cory-booker-lures-wall-street-millions-to-newark-few-have-seen.html","title":{"rendered":"Cory Booker lures Wall Street millions to Newark few have seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsDay &#8211; Cory Booker strides to the lectern at a June reception honoring hedge-fund founder Bill Ackman. Pershing Square Foundation, Ackman&#8217;s philanthropic organization, had pledged more than $25 million since 2007 to help Booker&#8217;s poverty-wracked Newark, New Jersey, improve schooling, enhance parks and find jobs for ex-convicts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in Manhattan&#8217;s Mandarin Oriental ballroom, the 43- year-old mayor salutes one of the titans of finance he had persuaded to revive a city in which some have never set foot, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.newsday.com\/news\/region-state\/cory-booker-lures-wall-street-millions-to-newark-few-have-seen-1.4084669\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsDay &#8211; Cory Booker strides to the lectern at a June reception honoring hedge-fund founder Bill Ackman. Pershing Square Foundation, Ackman&#8217;s philanthropic organization, had pledged more than $25 million since 2007 to help Booker&#8217;s poverty-wracked Newark, New Jersey, improve schooling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31799,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31798\/revisions\/31799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}