{"id":32793,"date":"2021-03-12T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32793"},"modified":"2021-03-12T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T00:19:00","slug":"sanders-invites-bezos-to-testify-at-inequality-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32793","title":{"rendered":"Sanders invites Bezos to testify at inequality hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Friday that he has invited Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to testify at a hearing about inequality scheduled for next week, though Bezos is not expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Budget Committee chairman has already secured the testimony of one worker at the e-commerce giant\u2019s Bessemer, Ala., plant, where a unionization vote is in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Bates, who trains employees at the warehouse, will appear alongside multiple economists at the hearing titled \u201cThe Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Amazon told The Hill that Bezos will not attend the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced Friday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32794,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions\/32794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}