{"id":71533,"date":"2016-02-28T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71533"},"modified":"2016-02-28T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T02:30:59","slug":"liberals-launch-campaign-platform-for-saskatchewan-election-that-targets-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/28\/liberals-launch-campaign-platform-for-saskatchewan-election-that-targets-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals launch campaign platform for Saskatchewan election that targets poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71534\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71534\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o.png\" alt=\"(Facebook photo)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o.png 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12471406_1262004483826490_8395015120336257742_o-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/saskliberals\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>REGINA\u2014The Saskatchewan Liberal party has zeroed in on reducing poverty during an election campaign kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals announced Saturday night in Regina they would raise the provincial minimum wage to $13 an hour by July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>They say they would also raise the base personal income tax exemption to a level equivalent with a full-time minimum wage job.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals further pledge that a working tax credit would be available for people whose income doesn&#8217;t exceed the basic personal amount.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal leader Darrin Lamoureux says the governing Saskatchewan Party&#8217;s insistence on exploiting the Temporary Foreign Worker Program has provided the service sector with new labour, while keeping wages low.<\/p>\n<p>Voters will go to the polls in Saskatchewan on April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REGINA\u2014The Saskatchewan Liberal party has zeroed in on reducing poverty during an election campaign kickoff. The Liberals announced Saturday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}