{"id":29586,"date":"2015-07-07T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29586"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:41:12","slug":"us-presidential-candidate-backs-the-green-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/07\/us-presidential-candidate-backs-the-green-new-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"US presidential candidate backs the Green New Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr Jill Stein has backed the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greennewdealgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green New Deal<\/a> - which she looks to have lifted wholesale from the work of the UK based\u00a0Green New Deal group, of which I am a member. In an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/career-politics\/news\/a29196\/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\">with Elle magazine<\/a> she said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Green New Deal is an emergency solution to two big crises. One is the crisis of the economy, which is actually not getting better, and the other is the crisis of the climate. And it solves them together\u2013not one ahead of the other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite right.<\/p>\n<p>If only more candidates would say just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr Jill Stein has backed the\u00a0Green New Deal &#8211; which she looks to have lifted wholesale from the work of<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/07\/us-presidential-candidate-backs-the-green-new-deal\/\"><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":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586","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=29586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}