{"id":2017,"date":"2019-12-19T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:44:36","slug":"global-education-disparity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"global education disparity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/china-photo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned in the previous post, I&#8217;m currently reading parts of a sociology college textbook written by James Henslin (the above is an outtake from the book).  It notes that people in least industrialized countries live on less than $1,000 a year and children in these countries, consequently, often don&#8217;t go to school beyond the first couple grades.  The other night I covered a Board of Education meeting.  Agenda items included purchasing a new bus, some high school students taking a week-long &#8220;Ocean Focus&#8221; environmental class in the Florida Keys, and there was talk of the newest technology in the high school&#8217;s robotics class.  Now&#8230;  To be in line with the gospel message, industrialized countries should dial back some of this educational &#8220;upward ascent\/extras\/et al,&#8221; if you will, and take the savings, etc., and provide more for our brothers and sisters in these other countries.  Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/education-c1h9h\">education<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/foreign-policy\">foreign affairs<\/a>, positions include some ways to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in the previous post, I&#8217;m currently reading parts of a sociology college textbook written by James Henslin (the above is an outtake from the book). It notes that people in least industrialized countries live on less than $1,000 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2017\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}