{"id":280,"date":"2011-06-04T02:46:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/04\/how-to-get-the-poor-to-save\/"},"modified":"2011-06-04T02:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T06:46:37","slug":"how-to-get-the-poor-to-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/how-to-get-the-poor-to-save\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get the Poor to Save"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/centives.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/060411_0644_howtogetthe1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2295852\/\">Slate&#8217;s Explainer<\/a> took a look at some of the current programs that the United States government runs to encourage poor people to save. Some of the more interesting findings include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States Federal Government spends $600 billion on measures designed to encourage the poor to save more, yet most of these measures only help the wealthy.\n<\/li>\n<li>The vast number of investment schemes available for retirement schemes are so confusing that many just opt for inaction and avoid saving\n<\/li>\n<li>In the United States 80% of the benefits of the tax treatment of retirement savings go to 20% of the earners\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2295852\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2295852\/\">Slate Magazine<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate&#8217;s Explainer took a look at some of the current programs that the United States government runs to encourage poor people to save. Some of the more interesting findings include: The United States Federal Government spends $600 billion on measures designed to encourage the poor to save more, yet most of these measures only help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}