{"id":144126,"date":"2020-05-14T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/14\/how-much-does-the-furlough-scheme-cost-compared-to-2008-banks-bailout-trident-and-hs2\/"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T11:07:00","slug":"how-much-does-the-furlough-scheme-cost-compared-to-2008-banks-bailout-trident-and-hs2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144126","title":{"rendered":"How much does the furlough scheme cost, compared to 2008 banks bailout, Trident and HS2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jobs furlough is estimated to be costing \u00a314bn a month. How does this compare with the other things the Government spends public money on, from high speed rail lines, to nuclear weapons, to affordable housing, to bailing out banks? Ben Chu looks into the numbers<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/coronavirus-furlough-cost-how-much-banks-bailout-trident-hs2-a9514231.html\" target=\"_blank\">How much does the furlough scheme cost, compared to 2008 banks bailout, Trident and HS2?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jobs furlough is estimated to be costing \u00a314bn a month. How does this compare with the other things the Government spends public money on, from high speed rail lines, to nuclear weapons, to affordable housing, to bailing out banks? Ben Chu looks into the numbers Via: How much does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}