{"id":4692,"date":"2011-02-11T03:53:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T03:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2011-02-11T03:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T03:53:23","slug":"obama-to-propose-slashing-home-heating-aid-for-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/02\/obama-to-propose-slashing-home-heating-aid-for-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Propose Slashing Home Heating Aid for Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/home-heating-oil-truckx-large.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4693\" title=\"Home heating oil truckx-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/home-heating-oil-truckx-large.jpg?resize=490%2C377\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/home-heating-oil-truckx-large.jpg?w=490&amp;ssl=1 490w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/home-heating-oil-truckx-large.jpg?resize=300%2C231&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">President Obama&#8217;s 2012 budget, set to be released on Monday, will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a $5 billion program that provides home heating aid for the poor, according to the National Journal. A perennial budget target, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program would be slashed to its 2008 level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Lawmakers from New England and other northern states always fight efforts to cut the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is among them this year. He says the more than 3 million families that rely on the government&#8217;s help would suffer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always supported serious efforts to restore fiscal sanity, but in the middle of a brutal, even historic, New England winter, home heating assistance is more critical than ever to the health and welfare of millions of Americans, especially senior citizens,&#8221; Kerry said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2011\/02\/obama-to-propose-slashing-home-heating-aid-for-poor\/1\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s 2012 budget, set to be released on Monday, will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a $5 billion program that provides home heating aid..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,166,181,84,97],"tags":[229,347],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-labor","category-statements","category-us-news","tag-economic-exploitation","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/home-heating-oil-truckx-large.jpg?fit=490%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}