{"id":23002,"date":"2013-07-29T19:24:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23002"},"modified":"2013-07-29T19:25:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:25:26","slug":"pres-obama-says-income-inequality-could-worsen-racial-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23002","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Says Income Inequality Could Worsen Racial Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRES. BARACK OBAMA<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the New York Times, President Obama warned that racial tensions in America might \u201cget worse\u201d if the divide in income between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country comes to grow.<br \/>\n \u201cPeople are frustrated. That\u2019s what they talk to me about and that\u2019s what they write to me about. (They say) \u2018I\u2019m doing okay right now, but what I\u2019ve seen over the last 20 years and what I learned profoundly during this crisis is that the ground under my feet just isn\u2019t as secure, and that the work I\u2019m doing may not be rewarded.\u2019  . . . And if that\u2019s not what Washington\u2019s talking about, then we will be missing the boat,\u201d Pres. Obama said in a 40-minute with the paper.<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cAnd racial tensions won\u2019t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they\u2019ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRES. BARACK OBAMA In an interview with the New York Times, President Obama warned that racial tensions in America might \u201cget worse\u201d if the divide in income between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country comes to grow. \u201cPeople are frustrated. That\u2019s what they talk to me about and that\u2019s what they write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}