{"id":8901,"date":"2020-08-10T14:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/18\/covid-19-impact-adds-hurdles-to-economic-growth\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:20","slug":"covid-19-impact-adds-hurdles-to-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/covid-19-impact-adds-hurdles-to-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 impact adds hurdles to economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Kailash Khandke, an economics professor, has written an opinion piece in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvillebusinessmag.com\/2020\/08\/07\/324449\/covid-19-impact-adds-hurdles-to-economic-growth\">Greenville Business Magazine<\/a><\/strong>. In it, he draws comparisons of our COVID-19 times to the Great Depression and the Great Recession and makes a case for federal intervention that reaches beyond individual stimulus checks and the Paycheck Protection Program. In addition to these short-term measures, Khandke says our state is in need of federal assistance programs that address alternative transportation networks, an expansion of South Carolina&#8217;s port, cleanup of federal lands and hazardous waste sites, and broadband access for all South Carolinians &#8211; measures that will reap benefits for decades to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s Kailash Khandke, an economics professor, has written an opinion piece in Greenville Business Magazine. In it, he draws comparisons of our COVID-19 times to the Great Depression and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46,6,69],"tags":[255,399,400,401,402,403,404],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","tag-covid-19","tag-economic-stimulus","tag-economics","tag-federal-assistance","tag-great-depression","tag-great-recession","tag-paycheck-protection-program"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}