{"id":7155,"date":"2012-04-13T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2012-04-13T12:27:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:27:32","slug":"when_mayoral_candidates_deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/when_mayoral_candidates_deliver.html","title":{"rendered":"When Mayoral Candidates Deliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/oh_ok_sure.html\">Artful governing<\/a> pays off in the end with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/13\/nyregion\/ny-living-wage-bill-after-christine-quinns-tweaks-has-shorter-reach.html\">tremendous results<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Early this year, Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council, held a news conference at City Hall to announce that she had resolved one of the most contentious issues to face the Council during her six-year tenure &#8212; a proposed law that would raise the wages of workers in developments subsidized by the city.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>This week, three months after her initial announcement, Ms. Quinn, a likely candidate for mayor next year, said that she had at last completed revising the measure, and that it would be &#8220;the most impactful living-wage law in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it now exempts even more employers, and by her office&#8217;s estimate, just 400 to 500 low-wage workers a year will benefit.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artful governing pays off in the end with tremendous results: Early this year, Christine C. Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council, held a news conference at City Hall to announce that she had resolved one of the most contentious issues to face the Council during her six-year tenure &#8212; a proposed law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}