{"id":618,"date":"2009-03-13T20:20:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:20:01","slug":"more_small_print_in_the_stimul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"More Small Print In The Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/mar\/13\/foreign-aid\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, Democrats in Congress put a provision in the stimulus bill that eliminated a law requiring that workers on federal contracts prove they are citizens or legal residents of the United States.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The eliminated provision includes a program called &#8220;E-verify&#8221; that allows employers to quickly access federal databases to check the legal status of workers &#8211; all but avoiding the risk that forged documents will fool an innocent employer into hiring an illegal.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Center for Immigration Studies, some 300,000 construction jobs will likely go to illegal aliens.&nbsp; This may provide a cheap labor pool, but it is not healthy for the American economy in the long term&#8211;it increases unemployment and deflates wages in general.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, Democrats in Congress put a provision in the stimulus bill that eliminated a law requiring that workers on federal contracts prove they are citizens or legal residents of the United States.&nbsp; According to the article: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=618\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}