{"id":19706,"date":"2015-04-16T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19706"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:31:18","slug":"gov-brownback-signs-welfare-reform-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19706","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Brownback signs welfare reform bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) <span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2014 Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill that specifies several dozen items poor families will not be able to buy with their welfare benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The restricted items included in the bill Brownback signed Thursday include concerts, tattoos, psychics and lingerie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although more than 20 states have similar bills, Kansas appears to have the most extensive list of restricted items. The bill has sparked national ridicule from several groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But it is part of a broader welfare law taking effect in July that Brownback and his allies s<\/span>ay is aimed at moving poor families from social services into jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill that specifies several dozen items poor families will not be able to buy with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3570],"tags":[1229,5699,5698,5700,5701],"class_list":["post-19706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-news","tag-brownback","tag-kansas-welfare","tag-tanf-kansas","tag-welfare-kansas","tag-welfare-restrictions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19724,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19706\/revisions\/19724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}