{"id":48185,"date":"2015-05-13T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48185"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T11:20:41","slug":"obama-targets-hedge-funds-in-personal-remarks-on-poverty-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/obama-targets-hedge-funds-in-personal-remarks-on-poverty-race.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama targets hedge funds in personal remarks on poverty, race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama addressed U.S. struggles with class and race in personal terms on Tuesday and renewed his call to close tax loopholes enjoyed by wealthy hedge fund managers as a way to reduce poverty among Americans. &#8220;The top 25 hedge fund managers made more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country,&#8221; Obama said at a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University. He advocated for a higher tax rate on the fees that hedge fund managers collect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/05\/12\/us-usa-poverty-obama-idUSKBN0NX2JR20150512\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; President Barack Obama addressed U.S. struggles with class and race in personal terms on Tuesday and renewed his call to close tax loopholes enjoyed by wealthy hedge fund managers as a way to reduce poverty among Americans. &#8220;The [&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-48185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48185","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=48185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48187,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48185\/revisions\/48187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}