{"id":294038,"date":"2010-02-08T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2010-02-08T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:25:13","slug":"jobs-issue-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/294038","title":{"rendered":"Jobs: Issue Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL &#8211; &#8220;Number one issue in Washington is jobs&#8221;, U.S Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said today, and the Senate jobs proposal will give much needed credit to small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The key to expanding employment and getting beyond unemployment&#8230; is in small business&#8221;. \u00a0Sen. Durbin, visiting a local Chicago pastry shop, said that the Jobs Bill will give community banks incentive to loan money and small businesses tax credits for new hires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Small businesses around the country are desperate for loans and credit so they can expand their business, hire more people and bring us out of this recession&#8221;, Durbin said. \u00a0With loans backed up by the federal government, Durbin stated the exposure for small banks will be minimal. \u00a0 Community banks will be required to give out loans to small businesses if they receive a portion of refunded TARP money. \u00a0The loans from the banks will help grow small businesses &#8220;and expand the number of employees&#8221;, Durbin said.<\/p>\n<p><div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=on&#038;width=375&#038;height=212&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=D350AE999D6A749604EF36CCC1F48A60&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D10789&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3DD350AE999D6A749604EF36CCC1F48A60%7Cts%3D1265808814%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=440d3623bde69ed7b2a307902dd09d88\"><\/script><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL &#8211; &#8220;Number one issue in Washington is jobs&#8221;, U.S Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said today, and the Senate jobs proposal will give much needed credit to small businesses. &#8220;The key to expanding employment and getting beyond unemployment&#8230; is in small business&#8221;. \u00a0Sen. Durbin, visiting a local Chicago pastry shop, said that the Jobs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}