{"id":18370,"date":"2017-12-07T01:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/07\/philip-hammond-causes-storm-with-remarks-about-disabled-workers\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T01:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:42:44","slug":"philip-hammond-causes-storm-with-remarks-about-disabled-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=18370","title":{"rendered":"Philip Hammond causes storm with remarks about disabled workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disability charity Scope and others call for chancellor to withdraw his comments implying disabled people are to blame for sluggish economyDisability charity Scope called on Philip Hammond to withdraw his \u201ctotally unacceptable and derogatory comments\u201d after he said Britain\u2019s sluggish productivity could partly be blamed on more disabled people in the workforce .In Wednesday\u2019s treasury select committee, the chancellor was asked about low economic productivity levels, which he had reported during the autumn Budget last month. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/dec\/07\/philip-hammond-causes-storm-with-remarks-about-disabled-workers\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Hammond causes storm with remarks about disabled workers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disability charity Scope and others call for chancellor to withdraw his comments implying disabled people are to blame for sluggish economyDisability charity Scope called on Philip Hammond to withdraw his \u201ctotally unacceptable and derogatory comments\u201d after he said Britain\u2019s sluggish productivity could partly be blamed on more disabled people in [&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-18370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370","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=18370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}