{"id":700713,"date":"2010-03-25T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/video\/iea-president-urges-members-to-fight-for-revenue-increase\/"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T16:00:11","slug":"iea-president-urges-members-to-fight-for-revenue-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700713","title":{"rendered":"IEA President urges members to fight for revenue increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blip_embed\" style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blip_description\" style=\"\">Illinois Education Association President Ken Swanson on Thursday, March 25, urged the 133,000 IEA members to channel the anger they are feeling over the passage of legislation into a positive action; convincing the same lawmakers who passed the bill that cuts pension benefits for future employees to pass a tax increase that will stop layoffs and program cuts in public education and provide needed funding for education and human services in Illinois.<\/div>\n<div class=\"blip_formats\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;\"><b>Formats available<\/b>: <a rel=\"enclosure\" href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Ieanea-IEAPresidentUrgesMembersToFightForRevenueIncrease624.m4v\">MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)<\/a>, <a rel=\"enclosure\" href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Ieanea-IEAPresidentUrgesMembersToFightForRevenueIncrease548.flv\">Flash Video (.flv)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Education Association President Ken Swanson on Thursday, March 25, urged the 133,000 IEA members to channel the anger they are feeling over the passage of legislation into a positive action; convincing the same lawmakers who passed the bill that cuts pension benefits for future employees to pass a tax increase that will stop layoffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WhP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}