{"id":28295,"date":"2015-03-18T12:14:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28295"},"modified":"2015-03-18T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T12:14:38","slug":"this-government-has-cut-infrastructure-spending-which-is-why-we-need-green-qe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/18\/this-government-has-cut-infrastructure-spending-which-is-why-we-need-green-qe\/","title":{"rendered":"This government has cut infrastructure spending &#8211; which is why we need green QE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/5652c79c-ccae-11e4-b94f-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3UjqxE2IF\" target=\"_blank\">FT has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spending on infrastructure \u2013 including schools, hospitals, road and energy projects \u2013 has fallen by at least \u00a315bn from its peak, following sharp cuts since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That's why we need <a title=\"How Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/12\/how-green-infrastructure-quantitative-easing-would-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">green quantitative easing<\/a>. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT has reported: Spending on infrastructure \u2013 including schools, hospitals, road and energy projects \u2013 has fallen by at least \u00a315bn from its peak,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/18\/this-government-has-cut-infrastructure-spending-which-is-why-we-need-green-qe\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}